Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mindful of international opinion, the Party is trying to give the crackdown a sugar coat by underlining those sections of Communist ideology which stress that freedom for the artist exists under Party discipline too. A faintly conciliatory tone has appeared in Soviet literary magazines as the Party writers, led by Ilya Ehrenburg, insist that the Soviet writer is just as free as his Western counterpart; in fact, a good deal freer, censorship nowithstanding. Of course, this is Socialist freedom: "The writer is free when he understands the nature of the historical process," comments Alexander Karaganov...
With the lessened emphasis on studying comes a correspondingly greater stress upon extracurricular activities. Professor Key notes that "at Yale the boys seemed to take the secret societies very seriously." It is, according to many, a bit easier to become a Big Man On Campus at Yale, although a Yale professor points out that "the emphasis on extracurricular activities here has lessened...
...satisfying as is the cloud in which this kind of generalization leaves its author, to stress in might be to gloss over what Curleyism meant to Boston. Here perhaps the most articulate of local commentators is Louis Lyons. "Curleyism," he said a week ago, "surrounded Boston like a moat for a generation, putting a chasm between city and suburbs with the most bitter refusal to entertain any cooperation with the city. It was a compound tragedy of Boston that it was saddled with Curleyism in the period of its most severe economic pinch, as capital of the region that...
Rearguard Tone. Ike's voice rang with conviction, and it was understandable that, faced with a peacetime-record deficit of $10 billion to $12 billion, he saw real peril for the U.S. in any trend toward freer spending. But his all-out stress on economy had a rearguard, negative tone that was unfair to his Administration's positive achievements...
...later on the third night, Lady Beatty spatted with Frankie and drove off in a Huff.* After two days, during which Frankie sulked and even refused an invitation to a ball for Princess Margaret, Lady Beatty decided to save face-her own face, which in times of emotional stress has a tendency to break out in an unbecoming rash. Off to Zurich she flew to see her psychiatrist. Said she about Frankie: "I don't want to see him ever again...