Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain had been beating down on the country around Thousand Oaks, Calif, for three days. At Louis Goebel's Wild Animal Farm it turned the grounds to hay-littered mud, dripped from red circus wagons, blew coldly through a rusty cage in which two shaggy lions paced and turned...
In 1949, the life expectancy of the average Communist bigwig went down sharply. Not since the Great Purge of 1936-38 had the leadership of world Communism been so rent by fear and division. No leaders of Western Communism had yet been ousted (see below), but behind the Iron Curtain...
There was scarcely a Communist leader in the Russian satellite countries who in 1949 had not been reported under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers...
Even Communist bigwigs are prey to dangerous indifference. One of Togliatti's own close friends, who felt that the Kremlin was taking itself altogether too seriously, recently remarked: "The best cure for the Russians would be a year in Naples where they could learn to laugh." In Eastern Europe...
He Who Gets Slapped. In France, no Communist Party leader seems yet ready to break away from Moscow. Only three have enough stature to pull off such a rebellion: Maurice Thorez, Jacques Duclos and André Marty. But Duclos is not considered ambitious enough, and Marty is too blindly loyal...