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...books that brought him fame, from The Jungle (about the Chicago stockyards) to Boston (the Sacco-Vanzetti trial) and The Brass Check (the capitalist press), were really fictionalized expose journalism; they belong to social rather than literary history. It is not his fault that today he seems quaint and a bit comic, like Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. For better or for worse, the U.S. has taken a good deal of his advice. Strikers, for instance, whose cause Sinclair fought from Pasadena to Passaic, are no longer jailed out of hand by local police chiefs acting under the orders of the Chamber...
Evidently they have not. The plenum will have to deal with inefficient industrial production, the long-debated need for capitalist-style incentives, and the continuing failure of Soviet agriculture, including Khrushchev's pet virgin lands project in Kazakhstan. Certain to come under scrutiny will be the most violent outburst of discontent reported from Russia in years, last summer's riots in the southern city of Novocherkassk, which ended with the killing of hundreds of workers and housewives who protested against high prices and poor working conditions (TIME, Oct. 19). Moscow denied the whole thing, but according...
...search for an earthly paradise. He has sought it in a monastery in Luxembourg, among surrealists in Paris, in the Communist Party. His novels have faithfully reflected the current state of his search. Independent People, for instance, which won him the 1955 Nobel Prize, deals with Icelandic freeholders battling capitalist landowners. In his latest novel, Laxness, now 60, takes a tranquil, detached look at man's age-old quest for paradise and in delicately laced, gently ironic prose shows how elusive paradise...
...again. Khrushchev hates and fears the Common Market and demands that other Communist parties take a tough line too. But Poland, which conducts 20% of its trade with the Six and Great Britain, takes a moderate stand; Italian and Belgian Communists, whose working-class members share in the prosperous capitalist economic community, have already endorsed the partnership despite Soviet opposition. Rather than make the split worse by argument, the Kremlin simply called off the session...
Instead, it seems likely that Moscow will accelerate its "peace" offensive; this could mean a protracted period of pleading for negotiations, perhaps coupled with sweeping proposals for European disengagement, in the hope that time and soft words might erode the capitalist enemy's determination to the point where Moscow feels it is safe to resume tougher tactics. This would certainly fit in with the views of those in the West who continue to argue that if Russia was reasonable enough to give up its Cuban bases, the U.S. ought to give up some of its own bases. A first...