Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...seven years since the fighting stopped. North Korea has become some-thing of a showcase (with plenty of window dressing) for Communism in Asia. Pyongyang (pop. 800,000) has a Stalin Allee just like East Berlin's, a vast opera house and a vaster sports stadium. Forests of swinging cranes constantly add to the number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan...
...according to Jubilee, are increasingly substituting for clergymen, "choosing the music (preferably not hymns-too depressing) and thermostatically regulating the level of grief ('empathy is more professional than sympathy'). Sometimes, in their role as priest-substitutes, the more far-out directors run into trouble with the real thing. One we met said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with neo-Platonism...
...ideas that MacLeish obviously feels need to be restated. He hammers his main point too many times; but perhaps it is unfair to condemn him for this since the play is aimed at the mass TV audience with its celebrated mental age of 14. At any rate, the whole thing is handled with good taste, and hopefully it will achieve its proletarian purpose...
...depressing thing about Dean Elder's disapproval of Earl McGrath's proposal to shorten the Ph.D. is that both Elder and McGrath are right. The growing shortage of college and high school teachers is neither imagined nor the result of foolish rules, but the inevitable result of an apparently irresolvable confusion of roles between College and University...
...almost always able to express the essence of what Russians feel on a particular issue. He speaks very well for us. As for the hitting (Mrs. Titova tapped her fist on the arm of her chair in delicate imitation of Chairman Khrushchev) that is not the important thing. You must remember that Khrushchev comes from working class people. He has had to fight for an education. He is not a diplomat; you can't expect him to be polished like Macmillan. He is a very emotional man and, if he bangs on tables, he still expresses the will...