Word: socialistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nose in the dirt."* To Americans, the series of events stirred painful memories of the 444-day U.S. hostage ordeal. But to the French, the latest targets of "revolutionary" Islamic vengeance in Iran, last week's episode came as an unexpected and brutal shock. In Paris, Socialist President François Mitterrand canceled weekend plans and closeted himself for five hours with aides to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesmen at the Quai d'Orsay issued optimistic statements. Declared Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson...
...Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with the most centralized government. Last week, fulfilling a campaign promise, President François Mitterrand's Socialist parliamentary majority approved the first half of a package that will return to local governments powers that, in some cases, they have not enjoyed since the 12th century...
...PROBLEM, of course, is that these are not foreign movies, they are Russian movies. They are Soviet movies. They are, in the end. Communist movies. Since most of our knowledge of Russian artistic life left off with socialist realism, we are notoriously nervous about watching these works. Socialist realism has about as much to do with Soviet Life as television has to do with Western life. Yes, it reflects social values. And yes, it is official. Only a fool would deny, too, that socialist realism, in some ways, presents role models. But why is it taken with such high-toned...
...originally intentioned for a statue of Stalin, but after his death, the Armenians defied that idea since the dictator had already butchered tow-thirds of the population. Around the base of the statue are Russian tanks--reminders of World War Two. Throughout the park are huge posters of the socialist realist school: lines of square-jawed sailors striding in unison into the future; happy collective farmers; and all manner of red flags and red kerchiefs and red messages. On any given Sunday, a good quarter of the city is up there picnicking. The kids are throwing food and the tacitly...
...fundamentally false, for we long for, and seek most earnestly, the most peaceful and easy fundamental and decisive social change possible in this country and this world. Strike violent! Strike violent and then we can discuss what we really mean. Oddly enough, we think that the goal of a socialist society is a very large number of people living very contentedly into advanced old age, condition which in this world now is hardly the case, be it in America or Bangladesh...