Word: bre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Lessons. Why, in a war in which some 3,800 soldiers on both sides die each week, had the killing of one civilian become such a cause célèbre? Partly because Chuyen's slaying exposed the tensions that exist among U.S. agencies carrying out spying activities in Viet Nam and along its borders. Chuyen was employed as an agent and interpreter by the Special Forces, which had assumed some intelligence-gathering duties long the prerogative of the CIA. The Berets suspected him of being a double agent and shot him, claiming that...
...situation"--was not without its blessings. Somehow, the show had been divested of all is early advantages, its theatre had become more of a disadvantage than anything else, and, maybe, the situation was just bad enough to make The Light Company Cambridge's newest cause célèbre...
...duchess's difficulties began in January 1967, when a Paris publishing house brought out a Spanish-language edition of The Strike. Almost immediately, copies of the book were bootlegged into Spain, and it quickly became a cause célèbre on many social levels. The duchess's restaurant meals were constantly interrupted by waiters who had read the book and simply wanted to shake her hand. The book was avidly read in her home region of Andalusia, where the novel is set. There she is respected not only as a horse woman but for her deep...
...case centered on the killing of three Negro youths. By the time Hersey arrived in Detroit last September, the affair had become something of a local cause celèbre. Both the Detroit News and the Free Press had published accounts, and three policemen involved had been suspended from the force. Hersey had planned to write on the riots in general, but he found them too diffuse to handle and decided to focus on the single incident. Even so, the episode, as he describes it, "is so complex, the cast of characters so huge, that I simply could not assume...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A Jew in Czarist Russia was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy; it was a cause célèbre out of which Malamud has constructed a memorable tale of one man's nightmare...