Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Timetable. The chief challenger to Khrushchev's theorizing was not present, for reasons unexplained, but the stocky shadow of Mao Tse-tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
When you flip through the highly polished pages of The New Yorker, you sometimes wonder whether a writer's facility leads you to forget that he has nothing to say. So, too, when you see a slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...
Back in Mexico City, Castro, called on Spanish Colonel Alberto Bayo, onetime fighter against Franco. Said Castro: "You know all about guerrillas. You will teach us." Bayo sold his furniture factory, rented a big hacienda in the shadow of the volcano Popocatepetl, and taught hit-and-run warfare to 80-odd irregulars assembled by Castro...
...English Department takes pride in the fact that it is housed in what is probably the oldest academic department headquarters in the country. It is also, undoubtedly, the only English Department in the country to preside in the shadow of an unwritten novel...
Inspector Maigret (French). Jean Gabin keeps on his toes as Georges Simenon's flawless flatfoot, and Director Jean Delannoy's camera is a superb shadow...