Word: stalinization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the "inevitable dismissal of this surplus labor," employment agencies should be set up to find jobs for the displaced workers. Liber-manist Efim Manevich made an even more daring proposal in the journal Problems of Economics. He suggested the introduction of unemployment compensation, a relic of capitalism that Stalin abolished 35 years ago. Manevich went on to urge another capitalist-toned remedy. Pointing out that the U.S.S.R. has far fewer retail-sales employees than the U.S.-he figures the number at 16 per 1,000 inhabitants v. 76 per 1,000 for the U.S. -he suggested that increasing service...
...trodden paths: stories of the dispossessed who mooned in Europe with Harold Stearns, then returned to claim their inheritence with Malcolm Cowley after the Crash; tales of the flagellants who during the '30's stood in awe of greasy Communist bosses and parroted Granville Hick's latest decoctations of Stalin on Proust...
...Throw them out! Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Stalin or Khrushchev would welcome these spineless, nodding, grunting freshmen. Since the people have lost their say in Congress because Representatives must bow to der Leader's "political advice," why have an election? If Congressmen don't do their job for the people because they fear loss of their position, where is our Republic, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights? In the future, I shall pay more attention to the way my Representative and Senators are voting...
...that reading is the curse of civilization and goes off to a remote isle to stare into space. After four days of memorizing every label in the medicine cabinet and pantry, he appears wild-eyed in the nearest drugstore and hauls off The Ambassadors, Jude the Obscure, Conversations with Stalin, three old Margery Al-linghams and Pornography...
Communism has itself made wrenching readjustments. One of the more striking has been the post-Stalin push for respectability. True, the spectacle of Khrushchev banging a shoe at the U.N. did little to convince the world that Communism had suddenly become couth. Even then, however, Soviet diplomacy had come a long way from the era in which Soviet agents pushed Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk from a window of Prague's Czernin Palace...