Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months Russia's headlong Nikita Khrushchev had seemed incapable of putting a foot wrong. His ways might be crude, his methods clumsy, but his words had an engaging candor. He conceded nothing, but incessant Russian appeals for a summit meeting "to relax tensions" had thrown the West on the propaganda defensive. Unilateral Russian "renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly...
...sudden, it was the Russians who seemed to be dragging their feet on the road to the summit. The amount of space devoted to the summit in the Russian press has fallen off by 30%, and Russian diplomats no longer display their old volubility on the subject. Gromyko at first insisted on talking separately to the Moscow ambassadors from the U.S.. Britain and France, then refused to hold a joint preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status...
...hasty were the Russian actions, so maladroit their handling of a Tito ready to meet them halfway, so inadequate the advance preparation for such unexpected shifts of attitude, that the confusion suggested some dispute inside the Kremlin councils, not necessarily about foreign affairs, but reflected in them. What such a dispute was about, outsiders could only guess, and some did; but perhaps months would pass before whatever went on in Moscow in April's last week became clear. Whatever the cause, it was not a very impressive diplomatic week for Nikita Khrushchev...
...predecessor, but for half its length it is refreshingly funny. After that, it becomes apparent that neither the reluctant hero, nor the hesitant heroine, nor the crowd of secondary suitors, nor the meddling friend, nor the coarse matchmaker, have been conceived with much imagination. Gogol portrays the Russian bourgeoisie, with only slight exaggeration and stereotyping, in all its pomposity, stupidity, and avarice. After The Marriage one can understand the October Revolution...
...Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children each morning in The King...