Names
The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian Politbyuro (Политбюро), itself a contraction of Politicheskoy Byuro (Политической Бюро, "Political Bureau"). Among the remaining Communist states, the Spanish Politburó was directly loaned from Russian, while Chinese uses a calque (Chinese: 政治局; pinyin: Zhèngzhì Jú), from which the Vietnamese (Bộ Chính trị), and Korean (정치국, 政治局 Jeongchigug) terms derive.
Read more about this topic: Politburo
Famous quotes containing the word names:
“Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“I come to this land to ride my horse,
to try my own guitar, to copy out
their two separate names like sunflowers, to conjure
up my daily bread, to endure,
somehow to endure.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)