Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast with Russian schools is staggering. In the Russian primary and secondary schools there is a standard nationwide curriculum. Children too dull to pass get shifted to vocational schools. The exceptionally bright are put into special schools attached to the universities. Scientific content of the standard curriculum: mathematics through trigonometry, five years of physics, four years of chemistry, general science (mostly natural history) in every grade beginning with the fourth. Warns AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss: "I can learn of no public high school in our country where a student obtains so thorough a preparation in science and mathematics, even...
...allies themselves never wholly believed they were needed. Europe was glad to feel needed. West German officials happily concluded that all fears of a U.S. withdrawal from Europe could be dismissed for at least five years, since it would take the U.S. that long to overcome the Russian lead in long-range missiles, and until then the U.S. would have to rely more than ever on its forward bases. Everywhere there was talk of sharing work, skills and secrets, of new sacrifices of sovereignty in the cause of greater united strength. All were heading toward the big day next month...
...death or disgrace of all his active rivals did not mean that Nikita was without opposition. In his climb to power, Khrushchev had downgraded the secret police, smashed the Stalinists, shaken up the bureaucrats who run Russian industry, and humiliated the army. Each of these victories had earned him new enemies in the middle ranks of Soviet officialdom-enemies who would be ever alert for weapons with which to cut him down...
...this pie was still in the sky, so were two Sputniks. For days past, Karandash, a famed Russian clown, had been convulsing Moscow audiences by exploding a small balloon, then explaining, "That is the American Sputnik." Never one to pass up a surefire gag, Nikita, too, harped on U.S. discomfiture: "The U.S. announced that it was preparing to launch an earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia...
Predictably, the loudest outcry came from Britain. THE DOG WILL DIE, WE CAN'T SAVE IT, wailed London's mass-minded Daily Mirror. Before BBC's announcer had even finished reading the Russian bulletin, more than 50 irate telephone calls began jamming the switchboard. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal...