Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fusion laboratories, and presumably the Russian ones too, are working on this idea. The practical difficulties are formidable. The heat must be carried away by refrigerating machinery as fast as it is formed. Neutrons will shower thickly through the coils as soon as a fusion reaction starts up inside. They will contribute more heat, and they may do worse. Neutrons often change a metal's structure in such a way that its electrical resistance increases. If this should happen suddenly to a hydrogen-cooled coil while a monstrous current is flowing through it, much of the apparatus...
...intentions. The film was apparently planned, in a soft-headed way, as an effort to find a silver lining in the Iron Curtain. As it has turned out, it seems no more than an unfeeling attempt to make a little money. The hero of the story is a soulful Russian major (Yul Brynner) who commands a border garrison during the 1956 Hungarian rebellion and the ensuing slaughter. He detains a busload of foreigners who are trying to leave the country, because he suspects that some of them may really be Hungarians. Almost at once, the major starts to roll...
...spectator is thus left to conclude that, as far as the tasteless makers of this movie are concerned, the most significant achievement of the Hungarian revolution was the murder of an innocent Russian...
...almost every material blessing, Levine finds the U.S.S.R. far behind the U.S. But where Russia is ahead, he does not hesitate to say so, e.g., Russian autos have a "clock on the dashboard that almost invariably tells the correct time...
Secret Life. The Privilege Was Mine, written by a Russian princess who fled after the Revolution in 1920 (at the age of 13) and returned 37 years later as the wife of a Belgian diplomat, is filled with insights that ring true and glitters with revealing conversations with all sorts of citizens from peasants to party leaders. It also offers evidence that nationalism knows no distinction between political systems. Though an antiCommunist, the princess is firmly on the side of the Kremlin when she feels Russia's historic interests are involved. In writing of the bloody suppression...