Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public school and Cambridge. Author Cyril Connolly, the Earl of Birkenhead and a host of other critics reviewed the book by launching scathing philippics on Philby, but most scathing of all was the preface to the book itself (which will appear this month as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the U.S.). Written by Novelist John le Carré (The Spy Who Came In from the Cold), it takes apart not only Philby but the Secret Intelligence Service (S.I.S.) and the British upper classes...
...Club." "Deceit was Philby's life work, deceit his nature," writes le Carré, once an agent himself. Still, says le Carré, the Establishment could not bring itself to suspect Philby's loyalty, even when there was overwhelming evidence against him: "The shaming fact of Philby's continued employment is that S.I.S. quite clearly identified class with loyalty." It clung, says le Carré, to the Establishment tenet that "this Club does not elect traitors, therefore Kim is not a traitor...
...Harvard Young Republican Club has passed a resolution calling for "an immediate halt to the bombing of North Vietnam and unconditional negotiations with all concerned parties, including...
...close vote at a meeting Tuesday night the YR's, in voting to negotiate the war, reversed previous club policy which had affirmed the necessity of the U.S. presence in Vietnam...
When the more hawkish members of the YRs said that the bombing should not be stopped, Irwin Gaines '69, vice-president of the Club, said, "There's a very good reason to cease bombing--there are people being killed...