Word: authority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, onetime U.S. naval attaché in Moscow and author of the bestselling Russian Assignment...
...career has been beset by police raids and moralistic outcries. But to most, Mae's meanderings were enlivened and redeemed by an intuitive sense of the ridiculous and a cheerful vulgarity. F. Scott Fitzgerald found Mae the only Hollywood actress with "an ironic edge, a comic spark." British Author Hugh Walpole applauded her mockery of the "fraying morals and manners of a dreary world...
...arrangements were pure Mao dynasty. All 19 excursionists were carefully chosen on the basis of docility: reporters from Pravda, Tass, Poland's Trybuna Ludu, North Korean news agencies, Britain's Red Sheep Alan Winnington (the London Daily Worker), along with Author Anna Louise Strong, doyenne of U.S. Red-liners, who was accused by the Kremlin in 1949 of working against Communism-an error for which Moscow later abjectly apologized. (For the Tibetan junket an oxygen tent was taken along for 74-year-old Journalist Strong, but the heady political climate of captive Tibet made it unnecessary...
...book that tries to say too much. The Underground City (TIME, May 26, 1958) was at once a war novel, a treatise on right and wrong, an indictment of the human condition. Its 755 pages were too many and too tiring. Now, in less than one-quarter the wordage. Author Humes, 33, has produced a new book that gives off more significance than his first could even suggest...
Love with Torture. Author Humes has devised a story that goes well beyond the tensions and the holocaust on the island. At the funeral, young Sulgrave meets the commander's wife, and there begins a tortured, driving love affair that is not only credible but deeply revealing. Through it the reader and Sulgrave begin to see what made the commander and Lieut. Dolfus the inscrutable men they seemed on the island. Theirs had been a common past, itself a prelude to ultimate unhappiness...