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...length. Out of these hundreds of fragments, a world takes shape, peopled, according to the author's own count, by no less than 160 characters. None of the characters holds a central role. They first come into focus in a shabby cafe, and are followed with an artful candid camera about the wintry city as they hunger for food or affection and disclose, in commonplace words and gestures, the misery that grips most of them. The resulting snapshots go deeper than a surface image: ¶The little flamenco street singer has the face of "a perverted farmyard beast...
After all the unhappy stories of informers and "progressives" among American prisoners in Communist hands, the hardy and happy released prisoners who jumped out of the trucks at Inchon last week had a different tale to tell-candid, bitter, and heartening. They were inmates of tough Camp Three at Changsong on the Yalu. They were the anti-Communist "reactionaries" who resisted indoctrination...
...anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss, in which he declared: "The only way to win elections year after year is to know what the voters want and give it to them...
...without censorship. Some ducked out of the tours, tried to dodge security police who trailed them, but even when they succeeded were wary of talking to Hungarians, who would suffer reprisals from the police if they were caught speaking to Westerners. New York Times Correspondent Cy Sulzberger filed a candid impression of the country: "Millions of intelligent beings living within the Soviet bloc have been . . . mesmerized by their monolithic propaganda machine . . . The average political leader . . . pretends to regard our statements ... as what the Russians call Klyukva ... in connotation . . . 'boloney.' 'Boloney' to date is regrettably what...
...most complete report of what happened came not from the usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung...