Word: apparatchik
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...cleverest move Milosevic made in his years as an ambitious apparatchik was to hitch his star to Ivan Stambolic, a nephew of one of the most powerful Serbian communist leaders. For more than 20 years, Milosevic moved up the communist hierarchy in Stambolic's wake, succeeding him as director of the state-owned industrial gas conglomerate Tehnogas, as Belgrade chief of the Communist Party and eventually as boss of the Serbian Communist Party. When the time came to slough off his mentor in late 1987, he did so with ruthless precision. By 1989 he was the unchallenged president of Serbia...
Time was when an editorial frown in Pravda could destroy the career of a party apparatchik or send a dissident to jail. But the demise of the Communist Party following last August's coup and the rising cost of newsprint today have put the squeeze on the former party newspaper. With its circulation down from 12 million to 1.3 million, Pravda announced last week that it will henceforth appear only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. It may go out of business altogether in April...
Tolstaya's eight stories, while never more than obliquely political, illustrate the forces that have gnawed away the structure of the world she describes. At a high school reunion, a fat and happy apparatchik sweeps up in his limo to be greeted with cold shoulders instead of warm hugs as his former classmates berate him for the oppressive privileges of the nomenklatura. Another character believes ideological purity will win him a plum diplomatic appointment. He not only forbids his wife to subscribe to a literary magazine and crosses out all suspiciously surnamed acquaintances from his address book, but also finally...
...SHOSTAKOVICH: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS. The Manhattan String Quartet (ESS.A.Y). In the 16 years since his death, Shostakovich's reputation has soared, partly on the strength of these 15 brillant quartets: personal, searingly intimate utterances that represent the flip side of the composer's symphonic-apparatchik persona. The Manhattanites, playing with understanding, cohesion and sharpness, reveal the man behind the mask...
...SHOSTAKOVICH: COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS. The Manhattan String Quartet (ESS.A.Y). In the 16 years since his death, Shostakovich's reputation has soared, partly on the strength of these 15 brillant quartets: personal, searingly intimate utterances that represent the flip side of the composer's symphonic-apparatchik persona. The Manhattanites, playing with understanding, cohesion and sharpness, reveal the man behind the mask...