Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were to become a Commissar of Poetry," declared hard-working Anthologist Louis Untermeyer before the Poetry Society of America in Manhattan, "I would remove from every school poetry book the words magic, beauty, wonder, glamour, purple, ecstasy, moon, and spring...
...Commissar's Delight. Composer Khachaturian's music is the kind that goes over well with commissars-because it also goes over well with the crowds. It has, like Tchaikovsky's music, melody, bounce and color-and basically banal themes. Khachaturian's life in a bureaucracy is therefore not as complicated as that of his musical betters, Prokofiev, the sophisticated ex-exile, or jittery Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical talents are wrenched by ideology. In the most recent sampling of Russian musical tastes, Khachaturian works proved to be the second most frequently performed in the U.S.S.R. (first, Prokofiev...
...Yogi & the Commissar. Andrei Gromyko is an almost perfect neo-paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative...
...Czar to Commissar. "Just as the warnings of James Monroe were directed emphatically against the territorial encroachments of Imperial Russia on the North American continent, so ... the non-colonization of new areas by Communist aggression is now declared to be a cardinal principle of American foreign policy...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...