Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...host of Soviet and U.S. diplomats?headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko?joined Kennedy and Khrushchev at the table. After a cocktail (Khrushchev downed a bourgeois martini, Kennedy a Dubonnet), the two leaders exchanged champagne toasts, regaled each other with political anecdotes and lighthearted comparisons of the Communist and capitalist ways of life. After the luncheon, in a now familiar Kennedy routine, the President took his guest by the arm, suggested a short walk in the garden, alone but for their interpreters. As they strolled around the garden's tree-shaded pond, Kennedy stuffed...
...Geneva to try to save it. "It will be completely lost in a few weeks." Rating the chances of saving Laos from Communism at "one in a thousand," the moody prince then departed for a rest on the Riviera. Most of the other big names, including Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko, had got away even earlier, leaving the podium to Red China's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi. He warned that the agreed goal of Laotian neutrality applied only to "international" matters-Laos could not join military alliances, but within the country, Communist forces should be perfectly free...
...murderers, highway robbers, dope runners and white slavers." In Mila 18, there are both good and bad Jews. The bad ones assist the Nazis in the systematic extermination of their fellow Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. The archvillains are the Germans-all cynics, slobs, sycophants and sadists. The hero, Andrei Androfski, leads the gallant last-ditch uprising out of the sewers and bunkers of Warsaw, but the only time he breaks down and weeps is over the death of his horse Batory, "the finest, the most beautiful and the most fierce animal in all of Poland...
...endured, bargained with, and outlasted. Only as they are walled in and wiped out, block by block, do the Jews awaken to the full horror of their fate. Some drag their own screaming relatives to the death trains to buy another day of life-in-death. Others, like Andrei Androfski, opt to sally out of bunkers like Mila 18 and salvage pride and honor in the suicidal, 42-day ghetto uprising that ranks in the legends of heroism as a modern Thermopylae...
...lift the sense of doom, Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...