Word: sovietized
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...will talk," said Konstantine Simonov, "but first let me tell you something about myself. Then each of you can tell me something about yourself." Speaking through an interpreter, the Soviet novelist talked of his years as a war correspondent, his career as a writer and editor and of his home and family in Moscow. Placing his hands on his knees, he then turned to one student after another and listened intently as each spoke of his plans, studies and family background...
...immediately relaxed the atmosphere and made it almost intimate, are typical of Simonov's continual interest in other people, an honest concern which lies behind the force of his personal charm as well as the strength of much of his writing. One of the most versatile writers in the Soviet Union, an experienced critic and journalist, a poet, novelist and playwright, K. M. Simonov is best known in this country for his great war novel, Days and Nights, and for such lyrical poems as "Wait for Me" and "Do You Remember." During his brief visit to the University last week...
Beer sketched five possible approaches to the arms race, starting with the one most familiar, deterrence. The present U.S. and Soviet policy, deterrence depends on the threat of nuclear retaliation for an attack. Among the dangers here are accident and miscalculation, for the system requires both full, swift information and unfailing rational calculation on both sides...
...problem of diverting our energies to the wretched of the world, however, is one for political leadership more than scientific know-how. We cannot adopt the means used by, say, the Soviet government to coerce its people into sacrificing for their children's world without accepting more of its premises than we are prepared to accept. Therefore our problem is to persuade ourselves that the sacrifice is worth it. That is a task for politicians. It was an ex-haberdasher from Missouri, and not a scientist, who was President when the Marshall Plan went into effect. And even the "closed...
...Unless Soviet Russia is willing to underwrite a bigger share of Cuba's economy, weapons may be all Castro has before long. Faced with an almost 50% drop in foreign exchange in the past year, the U.S. trade boycott, and the loss of $150 million from the discontinued U.S. sugar bonus, Economic Czar "Che" Guevara flew behind the Iron Curtain last month for help to avert economic disaster. Czechoslovakia agreed to double its aid, bringing the total to $40 million. But estimates are that Cuba needs an irreducible minimum of $250 million in freely convertible currencies this year...