Word: bolshevists
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Focusing on the Germany around him, Grosz became one of the most savage satirists in modern art. His enraged cartoons of blood-spitting consumptives, marble-jawed army officers, mincing whores and bull-necked burghers provoked Hitler to call him "cultural Bolshevist No 1." Grosz hated Germany, and he yearned to live in the U.S. His sketchbooks were filled with dreamy portraits of himself as a cowboy or an Indian chief, his room plastered with U.S. posters on which he inscribed mythical greetings to himself from Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller...
...Irresistible Surge. The Franco regime is an old-fashioned dictatorship. It is not dynamic and expansionist like Nazi Germany or Bolshevist Russia. It clings to old institutions and traditions, notably the Church, instead of trying to replace them. It is not strongly ideological. It does not propagandize itself as the Utopian answer to everything, or as an irresistible surge of historical force. Franco himself calls his government "provisional" and speaks of a future return to "normalization...
...tried to impose a form of society of which 99 Russians out of 100 had never heard, which had not been tried anywhere, and for which Russia was called unfit by the very men who had invented this idea of society. If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum...
Give us the child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevist forever...
Damned at once by the Hitlerites as Bolshevist, by the Russians as bourgeois, and by critics in the United States as a lunatic advocate of soulless mechanization, Walter Gropius is today nevertheless the humbly proud Papa of a New Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...