Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of mind that would rule out recurrences of the Suez breach. What is at stake is less the immediate problem of the West's defense against all that Sputnik threatens; rather, it is a rallying of the whole non-Communist West, now temporarily demoralized, to meet the Russian challenge...
...recent weeks Cairo has been alive with indignation over shipments of Russian wheat so rotten that it turned the bread green, of Communist Chinese tea so full of impurities that it had to be thrown away. The flood of Russian literature that pours into Egypt these days has left the average Egyptian totally unmoved; most of it is sold by weight for wrapping papers. Cairo housewives particularly like a magazine called Russia Today for wrapping bananas. "It doesn't tear so easily," said one. Nearly every machine in Egypt is Western-made, and for lack of spare parts...
...used as the frontispiece for his collected engraved works. Later, after he engaged in a ferocious political quarrel with John Wilkes and Charles Churchill (no kin), Hogarth issued a fresh impression. In it his portrait was replaced by a vitriolic caricature of "Bruiser" Churchill, drawn to look like a Russian bear...
...serialization of Not by Bread Alone, Vladimir Dudintsev's harsh novel of genius frustrated by Red bureaucracy (TIME, Oct. 21), later condemned the book but could not prevent publication in the West. Now another furor is brewing over the appearance in Italy of a novel by distinguished Russian Poet-Translator Boris Pasternak. Reason why the Italian publication is "unauthorized"' by Moscow is evident from lines such as these: "Marxism is not sufficiently master of itself to be a science ... I know no current of thought that is more isolated and farther from the facts than Marxism...
...from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...