Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Mark Vishniak, 93, author and TIME'S longtime Sovietologist (1946-58); in Manhattan. A law professor hi Moscow, Vishniak was five times arrested by Czar Nicholas II as an ardent Socialist Revolutionary. In 1917 he helped draw up the electoral laws for the provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and, as Vishniak later wrote, served in "the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia," which lasted just twelve hours before it was dissolved by Lenin. Escaping from the Bolsheviks, Vishniak fled to Paris and, after the beginning of World...
...suave Giscard and the hard-driving Chirac had once been allied -indeed Chirac had temporarily split the Gaullists to back Giscard for the presidency in 1974. More recently, the two had been rivals, and while they maneuvered for power, the opposition Socialist-Communist union de la gauche won an impressive 53% in last spring's cantonal elections (for regional representative assemblies). The two leaders differed sharply about how to deal with the leftist gains before the next Assembly elections in 1978. Chirac favored a hard-line conservatism. Giscard urged a reformist approach that might win moderates away from...
...summer as an amateur gold miner in the High Sierras of Northern California produced more muscles, more sober thoughts and a net profit of 80?. The next stop on his pilgrimage, college, was less of an ordeal. Still, despite his being a leading campus socialist at the University of Minnesota-a protester against the ROTC, a spark of the Jacobin Club and a charter member of the "first American student movement"-Sevareid could write a dozen years later: "I remember only struggle . . . emotional exhaustion...
...problem of the self and the state, of the self and others, lies at the heart of The Farewell Party. The novel's setting is a government health spa in an unnamed Eastern European socialist country. The spa caters to women who have fertility problems. A young nurse named Ruzena has no such difficulties. Only one time in bed with a famous touring trumpeter named Klima is enough to leave her pregnant. Klima has all but forgotten Ruzena when she calls some months later with the news. He returns to the fertility spa to try to convince her that...
...Athens, top Greek military commanders advised Premier Constantine Caramanlis to sink the Sismik. Socialist Party Leader Andreas Papandreou urged the same course. "Treat the Sismik as if she were Turkish troops on Greek land," he said...