Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
...major aspect of the work program, perhaps in a category all by itself, is the maple sugaring operation that brings the students and the school about 500 dollars each year. "Buck" Turner is in charge of this job, and about the end of February, when the thaw starts to set in, he and his crew begin to puncture the maples with small plastic spigots connected by an elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch...
...Path. But somewhere along the twists of the post-Stalinist line. Kantor got off the path to East Germany's future. Like so many other satellite intellectuals, he had kicked off his snowshoes in the cultural thaw that followed Khrushchev's attack on Stalinist tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe...
...genius." Continued the many-faced Ehrenburg, who toured the U.S. in 1946, roasted it for its slums and racial tensions: "In my voyages abroad I have learned that authentic culture is common to the whole world." Asked if he were planning a sequel to his novel The Thaw, which condemned-after Stalin's death-the shackles Stalinism clamped on art, he showed the same instinct for survival necessary for a Soviet writer: "Yes, I will write it-when I see clearly how the present situation develops...
RUSSIA IN TRANSITION, by Isaac Deutscher (245 pp.; Coward-McCann; $4.50), is a sheaf of essays mostly written during the '50s further bolstering the author's accurate 1953 prediction (in Russia: What Next?) that the Soviet political tundra was due for a big thaw after Stalin's death. Indeed, Polish-born Author Deutscher consumes an inordinate amount of time and space just crowing ("As to my severe critics, I shall only ask how many of them would venture to republish now in book form the views they expressed on Soviet prospects six, seven, or only three years...