Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summoned for shriving by a commissar (unlike Wang, a Marxist veteran of jthe Communists' 1934-35 "Long March" to the northwest), Wang confessed his error, but said: "Within me, my heart tells me I can't fight this civil war." The commissar pondered. "Comrade," he finally said, "if your heart tells you this, you must give it a rest. You must think deeply. When your heart changes, you may come back to your post...
Three Leagues have tried to meet the menace half-way. The Big Ten allows no outright purchase of talent; neither does it allow part-time "jobs". But there is nothing short of a Commissar who can stop interested alumni from assuring Glutz, the promising blocking-back, that coffee, cakes and liniment will be no problem at the U. The Pacific Coast Conference, under minor Czar Warren Atherton, has a stringent rule forbidding even such Alumni dalliance with high-school seniors. While the spirit of the coast authorities is willing, the flesh is relatvely weak; enforcement of this laudable stand lacks...
...never be said of Arthur Koestler that he picks the easy ones. In his powerful anti-Communist novels (Darkness at Noon, Arrival and Departure) and non-fiction (The Yogi and the Commissar) this tough-minded graduate of Europe's concentration camps sprang hip-deep into the great moral problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit...
Only George Lukacs (who was Commissar for Culture in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic, and has since lived in Moscow) again & again urged the subordination of the individual, especially the intellectual, to the community...
Professor Varga was People's Commissar of Finance in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). Like Bela Kun, Varga fled to Moscow when the Hungarian Soviet collapsed. Unlike Bela Kun, who was liquidated in Russia's Great Purge, he prospered and became economic adviser to the Russian Communist Party's Political Bureau. Hence his article is an important clue to what Russia's leading political theorists and practical politicians think about world affairs...