Word: chambersized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The essence of Chambers' character, says Zeligs, is an overriding guilt dating back to the suicide of his brother Richard. Chambers imagined some sort of death pact with his younger, stronger and more personable brother, and since then has sought out brother-figures to befriend and betray. Alger Hiss was...
The need in chambers to erase guilt by resurrecting likenesses of his dead brother, and then to prove his misculinity by destroying them, is offered by Zeligs as the motive for Chambers' falsifications against Hiss. The only problem with this neat analysis is that it applies equally well if Chambers...
At the opposite extreme, Zeligs occasionally probes too deep for his own good. His discussion of Chambers' mistaken recollections of individual dates -- some critical, some petty -- seems particularly force. "In the second Hiss trial," writes Zeligs, "Chambers . . . testified that Richard [his brother] had died on September 19, 1926. Whether Chambers...
It occurred with remarkable frequency and in varying forms. I shall point up a number of others later on, as they appeared in his sworn testimony, his autobiography, and other documentary sources. Chambers' special manipulation of dates, names and other symbols included among its features a magical symbol of numerical...
What is bothersome in this passage is not so much the meaning Zeligs attached to Chambers' misrecollections, but the weight. Never does he give the reader a sense of the wildly conjectural nature of his evaluation. Never does he acknowledge that Chambers' errors could derive not from "a magical art...