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Neither Kennedy's point about Russian test preparations nor his assurances about West Germany are going to thaw the Cold War: events in the last few months have gone too far. And in one sense, it is not really important that the Izvestia interview change minds. What it represents is a small gesture towards reasonableness, a small reminder that both sides have everything to lose by not listening to one another. It is no more than a gesture, but it is nonetheless welcome...
...campaign against Jewish "nationalism" was only dormant. Throughout the thaw, a steady trickle of anti-Semitic propaganda reminded Russian Jews that official policy had only moderated, not changed. Such traditional Jewish practices as circumcision, bar mitzvah, and the baking of unleavened bread drew sneering allusions in the Soviet press to "fanatics of the Talmud," who practice "cruelty rituals." In August Kiev's humorous monthly Perets (Pepper) lumped Jews, Nazis and Konrad Adenauer together in a grotesque front-page cartoon that placed the swastika inside the Star of David. Then came a harsher reminder. To jail last month, for sentences...
...having worked for Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender their antiSoviet armor," said he, in a bitter attack on all anti-Communist Jews outside the Soviet Union...
...stick, always careful to keep in step with the word from Moscow. In 1956, when Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th Party Congress, Stalin's old friend Ulbricht was quick to echo the new line ("One cannot reckon Stalin among the classic Marxists"). For all the thaw, Ulbricht soon cracked down on students and teachers who had friendly ideas of their own, arresting dozens, expelling scores from their universities. To stamp out religion and give new meaning to socialism, Ulbricht introduced "socialist name-giving" ceremonies to replace baptism, "socialist marriage" rituals to replace church weddings. Orders went...
...Madison Square Garden. Converted from a rail depot by P. T. Barnum in 1873, the Garden in 1890 moved into new quarters that were designed by Stanford White, the great architect who was shot to death on its roof garden 16 years later by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who resented White's flirtation with Thaw's showgirl wife. In 1925 White's Garden was razed, and a new one erected across town from Madison Square on Eighth Avenue. Here, over the years, Joe Louis stiffened his "bum of the month," hockey players scuffled, the circus came indoors...