Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders were untrained in rebellion and unskilled in maneuver, but their strength was that they could genuinely claim to speak for the people. Ever since the Russians put Puppet Janos Kadar on the throne, he has sought by persuasion, threat and promise to undermine the workers' councils. He understood clearly, as did they, that he must dominate them, or be himself destroyed. Last week the test began in earnest...
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING, by George Orwell. An early (1936) novel of Orwell's, but new to the U.S. Its slashingly satirical attack on left-wing intellectuals and phony-proletarian martyrs of the '305 shows how early Orwell understood that it is the puny fellow traveler who clears the way for Big Brother...
...Communist could be happy about the world's inability to help Hungary more. Most Americans understood, if not all others did, that the U.S. failure to respond decisively in Hungary was not out of indifference or cowardice, but from the conviction that all-out assistance to Hungary ran the risk of starting World...
...councils, the citizens' groups, the army units dare not let the Kadar regime regain full control of the country. They cannot overthrow the Red Army, but their strength lies in the fact that neither can the Russians mine coal in army tanks. Some kind of agreed or understood armistice between workers' council and regime, protecting the Hungarians against reprisals in return for a resumption of stability, is what the rebels must continue to fight for. One thing the U.S. and U.N. cannot do is to regard the battle as over and opportunity past...
...Toledo. His origins were obscure, and his name-Domenikos Theotokopoulos-was so difficult that he was called simply El Greco (The Greek). He said he was born in Crete, boasted that he had been a student of Titian and, as one Toledo Spaniard recorded, "he let it be understood that nothing in the world was superior to his art." Certainly the stranger had at his brush tip not only Titian's designs but also all the secrets of Tintoretto's theatrical fireworks and Correggio's dramatic lighting as well. Soon even the proud churches of Toledo were...