Word: vargas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and fifty long steps above the vaulted vestibule of Memorial Hall, perched among the innumerable beams and cables of the inside of the tower, is a small shack papered with ancient Varga calendars...
Right-Winger Dezso Sulyok; and Father Bela Varga, once Speaker of Hungary's Parliament...
...lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar to the Esquire oglers who glanced at the jingles under Varga's flesh-tinted cuties...
Coming from a Marxist in Soviet Russia, this was a sensational lot of heresies. Varga not only contradicted Marx, but the premises of Russia's current policy toward the U.S. and Britain. Last week, the U.S. heard the complete & unabridged story of what had happened to the heretic...
Party polemicists pounced on Varga and skinned him alive in various high-toned journals. He was given a chance to recant, but refused. Thereupon he was dismissed from his post as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. The institute was abolished. Twenty other top Soviet economists were in disgrace along with Varga; their mistake was that they did not listen to a proverb common among embattled Soviet economists: "It is better to defend the government's figures than to go to jail for your...