Like all cultural commissars, she was an artist manqué.

Books, magazines, music and art have all been flourishing and mostly finding ways to evade the cultural commissars.

Just how Shostakovich dealt with the cultural commissars would interest us not at all, of course, if he hadn't written so much brilliant and enduring music.

But by 1968 his relations with the Castro government and its cultural commissars had begun to sour, and he was recalled to Havana.

Shostakovich accompanied him to a meeting with the ranking cultural commissar in Moscow.

The reviewer was the sort of cultural commissar who'd never stoop to say a single favorable word about any Inspector Dhar film.

All in all, the opera seems to come out of some alternative reality: an America with cultural commissars stipulating politically correct fables.

Mr. Forman is concerned about the growing power of American cultural commissars on the secular and religious right.

Vasconcelos, naturally, received the appointment as minister of public education and became the cultural commissar and social engineer of the Revolution.

Whenever it is hoisted, it is a warning that the cultural commissars are on patrol.