Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friend Browder's desk, reporters noted a traveling chess board. Said he chattily: "I like to wrestle with chess problems." This was in the best Communist tradition (Marx, Lenin and Trotsky had all been rabid chess strategists); but Communism's most perplexing chess problem was still Earl himself...
...York, present Communist Boss William Zebulon Foster (no chess fan) was as jumpy as Browder was calm. He issued a statement that the capitalists' "wild orgies of speculation" about a possible Kremlin strategy shift were all nonsense. Foster would continue to battle "Browderism" in order to "pursue a correct Marxist policy...
...Kremlin. He had first emerged in 1943, as minister to Egypt. While in Cairo he negotiated Soviet recognition of new regimes in Syria and Lebanon after junketing incognito through the Levant. An occasional concertgoer with his handsome wife, Lydia Ivanovna, he has an embassy reputation as an expert at chess...
Every evening before he goes to sleep (on the floor; he never sleeps in a bed), Abdullah plays chess, to which he is passionately addicted. He is a strict Moslem, who criticizes Egypt's King Farouk for having allowed his Queen to go out unveiled. But he himself keeps a "black harem," a frequent source of dispute between him and his three wives...
...Shakespearean intensity of the great static closeups, the poetic registrations of emotion, the grandiose, dancelike gestures of the players, broad as bad opera-or Michelangelo. When Ivan's enemies mugged fear, Frenchmen cheerfully shouted: "Cowards!" When the sound track jammed as Ivan received a chess set from Queen Elizabeth, someone in the balcony yelped: "Speech!" In the long scene where Ivan almost dies, the theater rustled with smothered laughter and one strident voice speared up from the dark: "Alors, mon vieux, kick the bucket and we'll all go home...