Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Philby, 55, proved aggressively unrepentant. "I would do it again tomorrow," said the former chief of British counterintelligence, who went over the wall in 1963. His purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only by one touch of staleness: "I am rather tired of caviar...
...Supreme Judicial Court took a significant and courageous step last week in striking down four ancient laws of the Common-wealth--specifically statutes making it a crime to be a vagrant, a tramp, a vagabond, or a suspicious person abroad in the nighttime and unable to give a satisfactory account of himself. They were laws not often enforced, but it was precisely their erratic and necessarily arbitrary application that made them dangerous...
There is no quibbling with Walzer's piece. It is a jewel. In casting about for historical justifications of their actions, Walzer writes, the Puritans seized on the Biblical account of the flight from Egypt. Cromwell's Saints saw in Moses' struggle with the turpitudinous Israelites a conflict similar to their own battle with the lax English folk. Guided by this intuition he uses Biblical sources to interpret Moses' as a revolutionary leader. As might be expected, the evidence is inconclusive, the argument intriguing: Moses appears as a Weberian patriarch, doing his ferocious best to keep the means of administration...
...absolutism. Our interest is forced to her as she accents the justified doubts of everyone she nears, creating and defending a world in which she might sleep with her brother. The play may be other things in other productions or even on other nights. But Thursday it was an account of exploitation, unrepenting exploitation because in the profoundest, most terrifying sense, necessary. Love is here a willingness to be exploited, to hold back the words of the thoughts of objective considerations. Love is a willingness not to see and, failing that, not to know what is seen; innocence...
...LEGIONS by Donald Duncan (Random House, $1.95), has emotional authenticity. Duncan has killed. A professional soldier, he served 18 months in Viet Nam with the Green Berets and then quit to join the antiwar chorus. His account of deadly jungle hide-and-seek by Special Forces "Sneaky Petes" in the Viet Cong's midst throbs with veracity. But it was not the killing that made Duncan change his mind about war, or scenes of murder and torture, or simply the mind-numbing training that preceded his Viet Nam hitch. The crisis came instead deep in Viet Cong territory when...