It was a mid-Cold War golden age for Soviet power.
What it is, most definitely, is a surreal, plot-free play written in Germany in the late 1970s, exploring alienation, post-war Teutonic guilt and mid-cold war existential angst over the environment, individuality and the discreet lack of charm of the bourgeoise, given a new English translation by an expert in Ionesco's (remember him?) theatre of the absurd.
Oswald, to be sure, had led a rum life, including a mysterious spell in the Soviet Union, to which he had been able to emigrate mid-cold war, before returning – seemingly just as easily – to the United States, with his Russian wife, Marina.
The most commonly used form of the Köppen classification has five primary types labeled A through E. Specifically, the primary types are A, tropical; B, dry; C, mild mid-latitude; D, cold mid-latitude; and E, polar.
The most commonly used form of the Köppen classification has five primary types labeled A through E. These primary types are A, tropical; B, dry; C, mild mid-latitude; D, cold mid-latitude; and E, polar.
It was nighttime, mid-October, cold air blowing in through the open window.
The scale of the protest – more than 30,000 people, despite the mid-winter cold – gave me a flicker of hope.
The poem itself became an icon of the Beat Generation, a literal howl at the mechanistic consumerist conformist anti-communist, anti-sex American society of the mid-50s cold war.
The rapid passage of a mid-latitude cold front, for example, can drop temperatures by 10 °C (18 °F) in a few minutes and, if followed by the sustained movement of a cold air mass, by as much as 50 °C in 24 hours, with life-threatening implications for the unwary.
In a typical Collective Actions performance, participants would be summoned by telephone or word of mouth, much like a modern-day rave party, to a field or a forest clearing outside Moscow where, often in the biting mid-winter cold, they would wait, shivering, for something to happen.
When I pitched the idea for Weblogs, Inc. to Mark Cuban, Yossi Vardi and Jeff Bezos, I understood all the niche email marketing and newsletter companies from the early and mid-nineties cold.
