Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To Ellery Queen, it is the very inimitability of the master-hardly a Holmesian exists who has not mentally attempted to compose a further adventure of the world's first consulting detective. To Critic Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London...
The cast at the Loeb is almost uniformly excellent; no performance is worse than good. The scene is set skillfully at the onset by a London street singer (Scott Taylor), who tells of Mac the Knife, a ruthless, but versatile killer, robber, and rapist with an ability bordering enchantment to...
Fulbright was a country boy who made it to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,* and some of his colleagues regard him as an aloof and self-righteous man who never got over the experience. (President Truman once called him "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b.") As time went by, Fulbright grew to...
He was a courtly, imposing figure, given to Olympian judgments. A longtime associate characterized him as "something of a grandee." Nearly everyone called him Mr. Krock. During 66 years as a journalist, Arthur Krock was the confidant-and quite often the prickly conscience-of the select and powerful in Washington...
One reason for Wilson's visceral response may be that the alleged organizers of the transaction are a pair of high-powered, hard-to-approach Wilson associates whose closeness to the Prime Minister had inspired resentment even before they made the headlines. One of them is Mining Consultant Anthony...