Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some principle by which the names have been changed to protect the guilty, Leon Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, in this novel is called Victor Rostov. But there is no doubt that the book is about the chess-playing, intellectual Commissar of War (1918-25) who lost his long struggle for power with Stalin. Trotsky became the grand heretic of a religion whose god is the state; it was his peculiar hell that he never ceased to believe in the religion that had made him its principal devil...
...knows an impressive amount already about both subjects. At the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he built the accelerator, he and a research team of schoolboy scientists hope this summer to fire off a stratospheric rocket with a 20-lb. instrument payload. The first-prize winner also plays chess, wrestles on the varsity team at Baylor, talks enthusiastically about the arduous pleasures of spelunking, plans a cave-exploring trip this spring. Other top winners...
...Crew-cut Robert McDonnell, a 17-year-old senior at Maine Township high school in Park Ridge, Ill., earned a $4,000 fourth prize by measuring the heat given off by several chemical reactions involving graphite. He likes astronomy, chess, classical music and stamp collecting, wants to study particle and theoretical physics...
...part of his schoolwork, but such assignments are hardly the usual fare for Minnesota second-graders. Neither are some of the topics the bright, assertive boy tackles with no apparent harm-parts of speech and sentence structure, German, geography, fractions, mythology and poetry (Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg) and chess...
...first few months on Marguerite's salary as a teacher at Bethany Day Nursery. Marguerite remembers Harry in those days-the subway-riding days -as "a big, playful animal." A friend. Painter Matthew Feinman, remembers that he was seething with racial feeling. The two of them played chess, and when they were arranging the chessmen, Harry used to say: "I'm taking the black ones, man, because they're better than the white; they're the best...