Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall, well-dressed man walked into the police station in Middletown, Conn. "I lost two friends by assassination in the past five years," he said. "I want to do everything I can to encourage people to turn in their guns." Then William Manchester, 46, author of The Death of a President, handed over his own .45-cal. automatic pistol to the officer on duty...
...guilty either of grave oversight or willful neglect in regard to Richard Nixon," read the stern letter to the editor of the New York Times. Its author, David Eisenhower II, 20, Ike's grandson, was in the thick of his new job as chairman of the Youth for Nixon organization. David and Julie Nixon, 19, are so optimistic about her dad's chances that they may move up the date of their marriage, originally planned for after their college graduations in 1970, to "sometime after the election." That could make it a White House wedding...
...point of the book was clearly that the Russian intellectuals who made the revolution would have been well pleased to unmake it. To have written such a book, even for the author's private amusement, seems foolhardy. Lampooning the proletariat was unpardonable heresy, and Translator Michael Glenny suggests a fouler crime against the state: the figure of Bulgakov's too clever professor, he thinks, may be a caricature of Lenin. Obviously, Bulgakov was courageous; he wrote with rare fury for the rest of his life, muffled but not silenced by censors. But the evidence of The Heart...
...Author Benchley, 52, son of Humorist Robert Benchley and himself a successful comic novelist (his book The Off-Islanders became The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), is a careful tailor of dialogue and characterization. But by laboriously presenting stop-action, caseworker-like descriptions of his characters' psychological past, he unfortunately produces a general air more clinical than criminal, a climax that is more Gestalt than gothic, a final effect that evokes a quiet Oh, yes, instead of a stricken...
Peter Weiss, author of Marat/ Sade and The Investigation, is best known as one of the more strident practitioners of the theater of fact. Therefore it should come as no surprise that this novel contains little fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much...