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This proclamation cost Malenkov his job as party secretary and resulted in a vigorous campaign by Zhdanov for the revival of strict Marxist orthodoxy in the party. But Malenkov had bet on the right horse. Zhdanov died unexpectedly-in 1948. Soon afterwards, most of his partisans lost their jobs. The Five-Year-Planner Vosnesensky, Zhdanov's most ardent disciple, was liquidated so completely that his name was erased from the Soviet history books. Since then, Malenkov has apparently had a clear track...
...contract with the Museum of Modern Art placed strict provisions upon the program. Admission to any of the films tracing the development of movies from 1895 to the present will be by yearly or halfyear membership cards only. No individual tickets will be sold...
...gatherings, and cannot hope to match the old-school political oratory which will be unleashed when Paul Dever's campaign gets fully under way. In an effort to keep Irish, Italian, Polish and French-Canadian voters away from Herter, Democrats have labeled Herter a "Yankee," which in the strict New England sense he is not; his paternal grandfather came from Germany and he was born in Paris, where his father was studying painting. Democrats are also whispering that Chris Herter is opposed to state-financed buses for parochial schools, which he is not; he opposes buses for such schools...
...conductor, he disdains a strict beat (and often any beat at all), breaks every known rule of his art and gets clean away with it. His florid, utterly unorthodox style, his physical grotesqueries on the podium are often taken as vanity or exhibitionism. Admirers prefer to think them the result of his notable freedom from conventional inhibitions. His range of gesticulation may be anything from a full, tense crouch to the subtlest nuance of fingertip or eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing...
Finch learns how to play company politics and win the boss's attention. "There are always two or more factions [e.g., Blank v. Threep] fighting for control," advises Mead. "It is essential to maintain strict neutrality long enough to determine which side is going to win . . . After it is clear that Threep, say, is going down, the humane thing to do is to finish him off as quickly as possible. Attack him freely, and preferably in Blank's presence . . . From this point on, follow Blank loyally. There is nothing like loyalty, as long as your man moves...