Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union without hoping from the bottom of his heart that these wonderful, hardworking people may have happiness and prosperity in that full measure which has never been theirs, and which no people more richly deserve...
...water, with its white-columned portico and low classical pediment, it recalled the Parthenon above Athens. The resemblance was not just physical. For what the architect told us was true. Since dialectical materialism rules out a next life, the good things of this life are the best hope the Soviet system has to offer. What their temples meant to the ancient Greeks, theaters symbolize to modern Russians. They are indeed "happiness and a pledge of more happiness to come...
...Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side in the album with a galloping Fete Populaire. Both performances are excellent...
...Molotov tried to do it several times. ... In the autumn of 1945 censorship was repealed. I was on leave and they started to write stones that Molotov forced me to go on leave and then wrote stories that I should return and fire him. These stories depicted the Soviet Government as a sort of zoological garden. Of course, our people got angry and they had to resume censorship...
...partisan dream of Wendell Willkie's one world and Franklin Roosevelt's four freedoms has been shattered. To place the complete blame for the demise of this dream on the present administration would be an unjust indictment. Other powers in the world today, notably the Soviet Union and Great Britain, have consistently followed a program of self interest. However, the power of the atom, and the vastness of American industrial wealth place the United States in a unique position. This nation alone can afford to gamble on the chance that the world can be led to understanding rather than forced...