Word: blum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarcely ever had a scoop in my life," he writes, "and it seemed to me, then as now, abysmally silly to break a neck by beating the opposition by a few seconds on a story." Gunther decided that the tumultuous personalities of Europe-Hitler, Kemal Ataturk, Léon Blum-deserved a full-length book. He did some legwork in Europe, grilled correspondents, composed and sent out a questionnaire he has used ever since ("What is the subject's attitude toward religion, sex, money? His pet hates, pet loves? His danger of assassination?") When the answers were in, Gunther...
...whole field" emphatically, for he is by no means exclusively a historian of Germany. During this term he also led a seminar in European socialism and communism in the interwar period; he has written a book on the Second International, and another on Three Intellectuals in Politics, Leon Blum, Walther Rathenau, and F.T. Marinetti. The last of the three, the Italian futurist painter who had so much in common with D'Anaunzio, is an especially illuminating corner of Joll's work: he confesses to fascination with the "links between artistic and social and political development" in this century, between...
...them recently graduated from Yugoslavian Universities, were anything but good Communists. On the other hand, they were by no means revolutionaries. The political and economic conditions of the state seemed merely to present a subject for jokes--made funnier perhaps by a quantity of alivevitz, the Yugoslavia blum brandy...
Died. Paul Faure, 82, former secretary-general of the French Socialist Party, who espoused the then traditional socialist policy of disarmament on the eve of World War II in opposition to Fellow Socialist ex-Premier Leon Blum; of a heart attack; in Paris...