Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crisis, of course, is as elemental to bullfighting as the cape and sword. Fifty years ago, Spaniards swore that Belmonte was commercializing the fights by breeding his own bulls and using an agent to arrange appearances at the then prime price of $3,300 an afternoon. The bull was no longer the central figure of the confrontation; the cult of the matador had been born. Once, such disputations raged in the comfortable surroundings of a packed arena. Crowds this year have been skimpy everywhere since the season opened in Castellon de la Plana. They have been rebellious too. In Seville...
...frilly flower design and diamond-shaped cutouts around the waistband -keep arriving from the U.S., France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid as a chastity belt," Renwick insists. But he keeps forging ahead -at $60 a belt...
...German press last week titillated its readers with two new tales of espionage. The first was the memoirs of KGB Lieut. Colonel Evgeny Runge, 41, who for years passed information collected from his agents through the Soviet embassy in Bonn to Moscow before defecting in 1967. The second concerns Austrian-born Rupert Sigl, who last month ended 16 years of activity for the KGB by defecting to the CIA in West Berlin. According to Die Welt am Sonntag, Sigl took with him the names of 250 Soviet agents working in Germany-a high figure for any spy to know...
...enough of such genteel allusions! The renegade New Journalism had issued its Challenge! The old guard was quick to react. And so, in the case of the aforementioned Tom Wolfe, we offer a few character references. From Joseph Alsop, came the disclosure that Tom Wolfe was an agent of Ho Chi Minh and campus disorders. Simultaneously, Dwight MacDonald--one of the "walking dead" himself--saw affinities between Wolfe, Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and your run-of-the-mill kamikaze pilot. Finally, in an effort to eliminate superficial contradictions while injecting a needed sense of perspective, Walter Lippmann categorically declared: "Tom Wolfe...
Those of us who are concerned, not with the curricular status of ROTC, but with its use as an agent of oppression in Vietnam and elsewhere, wish to know the simple fact: "Will the United States Army be using the campus to train army officers...