Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1955, when Soviet Communism wanted to smile, shake hands and play pen pals with the West after Stalin's death, the Kremlin had use for Bulganin's smooth good looks, benign good manners, and easy way with a glass. Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster. "A real gentleman;' cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi...
...correspondents shaped a new tradition of alert, informed foreign reporting that gave readers back home the world's best European coverage. From such resident and visiting firemen as the New York Evening Post's Dorothy Thompson. I.N.S.'s late H. R. Knickerbocker (who once interviewed Stalin's mother), the Chicago Tribune's William (Berlin Diary) Shirer, and Author Sheean, Correspondent Gunther busily soaked up lore and legends that never made the news stories. Gunther's most valuable mentor: the New York Evening Post's M. W. (''Mike") Fodor, dean of Balkan...
...heard one story of a painter who did nothing but portraits of Stalin; he had a big backlog of these in his studio, which, since the coming of deStalinization, he cannot sell, and he has been ruined...
Foreign films are trickling in, but none from the U.S. Gina Lollobrigida is a hot favorite. Moscow saw some nudes this year-and was shocked. Love scenes are permitted in movies, and kissing even takes place on the stage, something taboo in Stalin's day. Recordings of American jazz bring bizarre prices on the black market, as much as $100 for a single record...
...great Protestant students of Jewish theology. There have been great Jewish students of Catholic theology ... A scholar and teacher must insist that it is possible to understand a statement without accepting it, to understand a style of literature without admiring it, to understand the motives of Napoleon, Caesar or Stalin without praising them...