Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin attempted to destroy the authority and power of the Soviet Communist Party by liquidating thousands of its leaders and tens of thousands of its minor functionaries. For 13 years there was no full meeting of the Central Committee and, according to Khrushchev himself, Politburo meetings were a sham. In its last years, the Stalin regime was a pure autocracy. Stalin ruled through a personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names that ranked beside Stalin's in the Politburo and in the government ministries were those of privileged shop-window dummies...
...Contradict yourself, in order to live. You must remain broken up," wrote Lewis in 1917. His contempt for the sham he felt in Western Society led to, "Self. Self. One must rescue that sanity. Truth, duty--are insanity." And again, from the mouth of one of his characters, "Expect nothing out of my mouth, therefore, that has a pleasant sound. Look for nothing but descriptions out of a vision of a person who has given up hoping for Man, who is scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so much the contrary...
...M.I.T. this afternoon, Adolph Samborski's freshman team will open its season. Although Samborski has been quiet about his probable lineup, Jerry Emmet, Dave Kipp, and Renny Johnson are likely to divide the 1:30 p.m. contest on the mound. Bill Cunningham and Sham McGrady are possible alternates...
...exactly what the film means beyond "Isn't this a hell of a world" is hard to discern. Surely it points toward an assertion of freedom--man stripped bare of all sham, superstition, pride, and being forced to make decisions, and that the ways of fate and of the human psyche are unknowable and unpredictable. Yet the conclusion seems to proclaim a sort of human brotherhood that is partially alien to Satrian existentialism. On the other hand, it is quite possible the Satre views these two lonely people who find one another as asserting the same sort of freedom...
While destroying the hold of religion, the Russians have also made Central Asia into a "showpiece" for visiting oriental delegations to admire. The coexistence of heavy industry, modern railroads, factories, and irrigation projects with the old civilization is, according to Frye, merely a sham to impress foreign visitors...