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...Winthrop's Guest Suite, however, the day's events couldn't have seemed more remote. Visiting E.H. Carr, the noted British historian who is spending six weeks at Harvard, was like stepping onto a very white, very soft cloud and drifting off into a sky of milk. As he lay back on his sofa and slowly fingered his white hair, Carr talked about the past, present, future and himself with a simple, contented smile and an almost unbelievable optimism...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: E.H. Carr | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

...Carr, now 71, stopped teaching about nine years ago, and is currently living at Harvard to study the Trotsky archives in Houghton and Widener. He has already published six large volumes on Soviet history; the seventh will probably come out sometime next month. He claims he isn't trying "to prove anything" by writing about Russia, but merely hopes his study will help "throw some light on what motivates the Russians...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: E.H. Carr | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

...Came in from the Cold, Le Carr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...CAME IN FROM THE COLD, by John le Carré. This grim, exciting cold-war thriller about a genuine professional in the international spying game is a good antidote for mystery fans fed up with excessively flashy Fleming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...superiors in London have cruelly chosen not to tell him. Beyond this, the book offers a small fillip of fable. Spies in the West, where individual life is held precious, vaguely hope that a just cause may absolve a man from responsibility for violence. But in the end Le Carré's secret agents, on both sides, are themselves as ruthless as the acts they perform. Few of them face the fact. In their world, Le Carré suggests, half of staying alive depends on staying numb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ruthless Is as Ruthless Does | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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