Word: yugoslavians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist Everyman. Politically, Kolakowski cannot speak with an authority comparable to Yugoslavian Dissenter Milovan Djilas. But intellectually, he strikes more deeply at the Communist mystique. In his Nowa Kultura series, Kolakowski casts himself in the role of a Communist Everyman. First, he asks why so many party intellectuals have withdrawn from activity and buried themselves in non-political work and a general effort to avoid responsibility. The answer, he says, is that the party is driving its supporters into passivity by denying them the right of dissent...
...approximately 50 papers and speeches to be delivered at the symposium, 14 will be by people from outside the United States, including 4 by Russians, one by a Yugoslavian, and one by a Czechoslovakian. Others will come from Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, and Germany...
...four hours later, arriving in Belgrade on a good-will visit, Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis warmly clasped the proletarian paw of Marshal Tito. The inconsistency was more apparent than real: Greece's alliance with Communist Yugoslavia is designed to protect them both from Russian attack. Reaffirming Greek-Yugoslavian solidarity, Karamanlis admitted that the Balkan Pact which links Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey is currently "sleeping"-and will continue to slumber until Turkey and Greece are able to settle their differences over Cyprus...
...look at her library and read any book I wished. In addition to other books, I noticed the works of Mark Twain, Carlyle, Turgeney, and Hardy. The living room was decorated with unusual fine taste and among the pictures were her mother's portrait, the autographed picture of the Yugoslavian king--at whose palace Miss Helen Keller and her party were entertained--Alexander Graham Bell's effigy, Miss Sullivan's picture, and Tagore's autographed picture...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...