Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller powerfully projects his own sense of exile, while demonstrating that he has the credentials of a major novelist, in this tragicomedic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family...
...nation that, with 6% of the world's population, can outproduce all the Communist countries combined and account for more than 42% of the entire output of the non-Communist world, is bound to be envied, feared and often hated. But it is also bound to be emulated, particularly when its performance is compared with that of the world's other superpower. With 30 million more people than there are in the U.S., the Soviet Union (see cover story) has a G.N.P. that is less than half as large as America...
Every Girl Wants One. The next Sunday, both papers offered a second round of revelations. The Times provided a highly detailed, perceptively written account of how Philby got started in espionage. The Observer ran some sentimental recollections of Eleanor's-just the thing to make every girl wish she had a spy for a husband. "If your work demands the most tireless watchfulness, you tend to compensate by the intensity of your sex-based relationships," wrote Eleanor. "Our marriage was perfect in every way." In a separate article entitled, "The Spy We Took In from the Cold," the Observer...
...prepared speech and lit into Thomson. "It is about time you shut up. Some of us think it is about time we stopped giving the Russians half a start on what we are doing, and, my dear Roy, I ask you and the Sunday Times to take this into account and for God's sake, stop." Replied Thomson: "We don't always take George very seriously, and now you have a very good picture of the man who is Foreign Secretary of this great country...
Royster has the conservative's ingrained distrust of people with neat solutions. "The fantasy that for every problem there exists a political solution is responsible for the drift toward paternalistic government. In its extreme form, it helps account for that phenomenon of the 20th century, the totalitarian state." While poverty clearly exists in the U.S., he feels that it has been grossly exaggerated. "Believe me," he writes, "in the slums you will also find the tempest-tossed from other lands to whom this 'poverty' is something they fled to from something far worse...