Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...propaganda in the shows is one reason; the food and drink are another. A daiquiri runs $1.10, and the once-famed Cuban rum approaches the undrinkable. A sinewy little beef filet goes for $10 at the official exchange rate, and red snapper for $4.50 a plate. "It's Stalin-style economics carried to the ultimate," says one foreign visitor. "If you can strip the consumer economy of its buying power, then you can plow your resources into heavy machinery and infrastructure...
...President Chen Cheng died in March, any doubts that Chiang would succeed his father as Nationalist China's chief vanished. Another enigmatic element in Chiang's career is the twelve years he spent in the Soviet Union (1925-37). Accounts of his last ten years there, when Stalin was feuding with Chiang Kaishek, are vague and controversial...
Next to intervene was Pope Paul VI, who stirred a flurry of approbation by announcing that he will fly to New York next month to address the U.N. on peace (see RELIGION). Though the Vatican can exert no physical or political power-as Stalin gibed: "How many divisions does he have?"-its influence over the minds of men in the past, and in Europe, has amounted to the moral equivalent of armed force. The question now is how much moral suasion can be brought to bear on a dispute between Pakistan's Moslems and India's Hindus-peoples...
...uncomplicated age. There were bad and good, rich and poor, oppressors and liberators, fascists and socialists. The dreams of the revolutionary idealists were shattered in 1939 when Stalin signed his nonaggression pact with Hitler. From then on, says Kazin, the role of the intellectuals was forever changed: "The élan of their lives, revolutionary faith in the future, was missing. History was now a tangle of meanings, without clear-cut issue. What would never come back, in this most political of ages, was the faith in a wholly new society that had been implicit in the revolutionary ideal...
Friday, August 27 FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The Eagle and the Bear, a review of U.S. relations with Russia from 1933 to the Roosevelt-Stalin meeting at Yalta. Repeat...