Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungarian intellectuals earned their meager allowance the hard way. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, after betraying his country to the Kremlin during the uprising, for four years tried to whip the country into submission by brutal use of police terror. But Kadar eventually learned that he could not force the sullen Hungarians to cooperate. With his civil service in tatters and economy a shambles, he gradually relaxed controls, even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last...
...winter dusk settled over West Berlin last week, Mayor Willy Brandt threw a switch. Instantly, 400 Christmas trees lining the 25 miles of the hated Communist-built Wall burst into twinkling lights-beacons of freedom for the sullen population of East Berlin...
...number which opens Act II, which featured a splendid Kazatzki by Betsy Wilson; the hymn to "Josephine" in which the whole great stage of Rindge Tech seems laden with pink skin; and the annual Twist Party that ends each Drumbeats show--they all left the audience, which seemed somewhat sullen during the intermission, stamping and cheering like in the old days at the Brooklyn Paramount...
...Very Private Affair is a very sad affair. Brigitte Bardot, the once cuddly sex kitten, has grown into a sullen tabby, and though New Wave Director Louis Malle is lavish with cinematic catnip (she pouts, flounces and appears in all sorts of bottomless costumes), nothing seems to bring back the young...
Though the two Communist powers now seldom indulge in public name-calling, thinly disguised ideological salvos still break the sullen silence. Recently Chinese dialecticians disinterred an ancient Marxist villain, Karl Kautsky, Austrian contemporary of Karl Marx, who was a moderate and Social Democrat-among the worst epithets in the Communist lexicon...