Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gravest threat to Gueiler's administration arises, as it usually does in Bolivia, from the armed forces. Three days after she was presented with the red, gold and green ceremonial sash of the presidency, Gueiler was handed a blunt de mand by a coalition of young pro-democratic army officers. Its substance: that she oust all of the high military officials appointed by Natusch, including General Luis Garcia Meza, a right-wing officer who had been named commander of the army. Gueiler was happy to oblige; she selected General Rene Villaroel, a moderate officer, for Garcia Meza...
...Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital or Dr. Ralph Benson of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, insist on it. But others, like New York University's Dr. Jordan Brown, are "not sure the partner of my patient is of equal concern." Baylor Plastic Surgeon Frank Gerow is more blunt. Says he: "It's important that women not be superfamiliar with what's being done. This is a man's operation for a man's problem...
...Blunt affair came as no shock to the author of this Essay. He was recruited into the M16 branch of British intelligence during World War II, and operated for 18 months as a spy at Lourengo Marques in Mozambique. His boss at M16 headquarters was Kim Philby-as it turned out-of the KGB. "Intelligence gathering, "the author later observed, "is even more fantasy-prone than news gathering. In the latter, you are often expected to make bricks without straw, but in the former, to grow lemons without a tree. "He thus retired from spying with some relief...
...Blunt, he is the classic pattern of the Cambridge aesthete, with a quiet precise voice, and a taste for subdued lighting and respectfully adoring young men. In some ways, given the difference between Cambridge, Mass., and Cambridge, England, he is reminiscent of Alger Hiss. He mentioned in his apologia that in the '30s he was drawn to Marxism and the U.S.S.R. in the light of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but went on to admit that it was the influence of Burgess that led him to translate this vague sympathy into active service on behalf...
More evident than a common grasp of Marxism was the common practice of homosexuality, at least as far as Burgess, Maclean and Blunt were concerned. Here again Philby was different, being an ardent womanizer, though, it would seem, odd in his ways. His third wife, an American lady acquired in Beirut, in her excellent little book The Spy I Loved, describes how he wooed her, which involved sending her a whole series of loving messages written on tiny pieces of tissue paper, with instructions to burn them when read and carefully scatter the ash, or, if that should be inconvenient...