Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroke Party Secretary Khrushchev sent into certain oblivion the three next-most-powerful policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union. Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy...
Last week was one of those rare times when both halves of Europe were simultaneously lit by the flare of significant events, and the weaknesses of the East and the strengths of the West could be better seen. Moscow got the big headlines: Nikita Khrushchev's grab for power, his overturning of Soviet Russia's most durable Politburocrats, his emergence in the top spot, was dramatic evidence that collective dictatorships in time become one-man dictatorships...
...least two generations, Europeans have seen that the U.S. is the greatest economic success story in history. But the men in charge of Europe's economic destinies long clung to the comfortable notion that the U.S. owes her prosperity not so much to superior economic techniques as to the generosity of Providence. Last week, in the two greatest capitals of the Continent, there was increasing evidence that this old assumption was dying, and that Europe, at long last, was prepared to profit by U.S. experience...
...Curley at his bushy-tailed best. Gallivanting about Rome with 60 other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke...
Although the plot is not so cryptic as a summary might indicate, Ashton has collected a menage of rather dissonant symbols and attempted to bring them together in a harmonious structure that only partly succeeds. Ashton must be seen in reaction to 19th century "realism," in whose place he would substitute a reconciliation of the Romantic with the Epic. He attempts to involve the audience emotionally (Romantically) and then to shock them intellectually (Epically...