Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year on U.S. records, Soviet Composer Aram Khachaturian (TIME, Nov. 10) got in the top 15 with his flashy Gayane Ballet Suite and his trashy Piano Concerto. Beethoven, usually voted a top favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
...British press are an open gate to an open forum. The U.S.S.R.'s Historian Eugene Tarle and David Zaslavsky, co-editor of Pravda, among others, have used it to get their viewpoints in print before the U.S. public. But last week, editors began to suspect that Soviet propagandists were getting set to crowd through the door in droves. Several influential papers had received and printed letters from Moscow, written in perfect English, expensively cabled and signed by private Soviet citizens-or at least bearing their names...
...money consideration were of no consequence, no Russian, regardless of station in life, and least of all an engineer, would risk even entertaining the thought of communicating with a foreign, capitalist newspaper. . . . Third, of the countless numbers of Russian engineers I have met, both here and in the Soviet Union, not one of them could have possibly written in such good English, or ... displayed such broad knowledge of economic problems here...
...iron curtain, and fervently portrays Tito's ruthless satrapy as a democratic government which differs from the U.S. merely in form, not in essence. It is a faithful echo of books which appeared in the '20s and '30s praising the new-type "democracy" of the Soviet Union...
...fifth article alleging communism in Harvard, the Chicago Tribune lashed out at visiting lecturer Vera Micheles Dean for "hiding facts" in her regional study course, "The United States and Soviet Russia...