Word: stalinized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more than a pastiche, cast in gloomy black, blue and red tones. Mystery is made up of many of the century's famous figures-including Czar Nicholas II, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Pablo Picasso, Franklin Roosevelt, Mao and Stalin, who is apparently dead, floating in a sea of blood. Says Glazunov: "It is a work of philosophical realism that reflects the ideas of humanity...
Both the Shah and Stalin...
Died. Alice Hughes, 78, newspaper reporter and syndicated columnist; in White Plains, N. Y. For 33 years Hughes wrote "A Woman's New York" for King Features. She also traveled extensively, reporting on culture in countries including Stalin's Soviet Union...
...week's end the Soviets allowed a U.S. newsman to leave after a six-day ordeal that illustrated how seriously the Russians are taking their pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...
...political age in the '30s, when, as she writes, "partisanship with or opposition to Communism made the great intellectual rift in this country." In those days people like Hellman were called Stalinists, though it was a term they would not have chosen for themselves. Hellman publicly supported Stalin's Great Purges, traveled frequently to Moscow and was even invited to meet and interview the dictator in the Kremlin. A decade later the vulpine Senator Joe McCarthy made Hellman and her colleagues his prey...