Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Think of men fighting in a fallout shelter after a nuclear attack. A gruesome situation, and a brilliant one for a play, but since the idea carries its own dramatic weight, the playwright must beware of substituting public terror and public slogans for his own private statement...
...turmoil that was uprooting China's ancient society, out of the alternation of hope and terror, of promised reward and present punishment, Communist China worked single-mindedly toward Mao's goal-and achieved comparative miracles. In eight years, the cotton harvest was up 30% from its prewar high to 1,600,000 tons. Steel production rose nearly six times above the 1943 peak of 900,000 tons,* although even this spectacular advance brought China's per capita steel production only to 4% of Japan's. With Soviet technical aid, China for the first time started...
...West, said Hoxha, was simply another way of "giving up the struggle" against imperialism. He insisted that Albania was not "throwing mud" on the Soviet Union,* but that it was Khrushchev who was libeling Albania, "just like the reactionary bourgeois press," by describing it as a country where "terror and murder held sway." To Khrushchev's charge that there was no "democracy" within the Albanian Communist Party, Hoxha insolently replied: "Better watch your own affairs...
...defenders, are necessary to keep the socialist reforms from being wrecked by the rich, the lazy, the discontented. Certainly, compared to the Egypt of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, who described "a human misery of such proportions that one's human feelings overflowed into disgust and terror," Nasser's Egypt is a vastly improved place. Largely gone from the cities are the droves of diseased beggars. In the countryside a few hundred thousand fellahin are farming their own land for the first time since the Pharaohs. Cairo's luxury hotels, once playgrounds of wealthy Egyptian society...
Calculated Risk. Just how well did Khrushchev's terror tactics work? Though he gloried in his role of modern-day Genghis Khan, the Soviet dictator took a calculated risk that his tests might so enrage the uncommitted nations that they would openly turn on Russia. As it turned out. almost all the neutralist nations professed disillusionment-although often couched in perfunctory language. "It is regrettable that Russia has proceeded with the test in spite of the appeal of the United Nations and other countries not to do so." said India's Nehru. "No amount of argument that...