Word: waves
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This presents a great opportunity for a glorification of the Soviet cause, but Kalatozov does not succumb. Instead, when the girls from the factory committee wave goodbye to Boris with promises to fulfill and overfulfill their production quotas, they are gently told to come off it. The film also reveals bribery and corruption in Soviet society with an extremely welcome frankness...
...Wave of the Future
Still shouting, Khrushchev bounced to his feet and waved his stubby fist in Macmillan's direction until he was gaveled into silence by Assembly President Boland. As the boss of all the Russians slumped back into his chair, Macmillan remarked: "I should like that to be translated if he wants to say anything." A wave of nervous laughter swept the Assembly, and when Macmillan at last finished, he got more applause than any speaker since the opening of the Assembly session...
...situation; the symbolism, those who cared, was reversed. dismay at a society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice, 5,000--including a state governor, participant in the Manhattan and an outstanding social...
...novel, really a philosophical fable, is an unusual book on several counts. The author, fortunately for him. is unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...