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Doctors' Plot. Stalin's growing derangement resulted in the "cruel and contemptible" affair called the Doctors' Plot. Khrushchev traces its beginning to a letter charging that Andrei Zhdanov, the Leningrad party boss, had been murdered by his physicians. Western experts have explained the plot as a calculated effort by Stalin to destroy Beria, whose security men would presumably have to be part of the scheme. In any case, Stalin ordered many doctors, particularly those who were treating Kremlin officials, arrested and mercilessly interrogated. Two were tortured to death, and the number would surely have risen had Stalin...
...understandably desirable love object, a genuine Lolita, but she can make little sense of her rather muddy character. Ralph Meeker, as the ruthless moonshiner, is all sinister smiles and barely repressed violence. The music, sung by Johnny Cash, is slick and unemotional. The main flaw is that the love affair between Alma and the sheriff lacks the qualities of desperation and frustration that would make it convincing. Alvin Sargent's script does not help matters much with such ritual movie Southernisms as "Eat your beans, Grandpa" and "Would you like a Dr Pepper?" Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff...
...MOST difficult thing to determine in the whole affair is exactly what was at stake, what the precise issue was. Though certain defendants and observers felt that the issue was the destruction of the American court system, the American court system is not destroyed by four minor trials...
Beneath the superficial complacency or the obvious confusion of these confessionals, also lurks a vast amount of sustained fear. In the story "Demons," about a woman's first affair, this fear suddenly erupts in a frenzy...
This was an authentic affair of the old politics-one that featured a candidate for Lieutenant Governor who broke into Spanish song. Senator Bob Byrd of West Virginia describing Senator Joe Montoya of New Mexico as "a pearl of great price in a chalice of silver." and Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma promising that when he becomes Speaker of the House next year, New Mexico's Congressmen-if Democrats, which they are not now-would surely get committee assignments "that will enable them best to use their talents in the interests of your state...