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Then we had our famous but short-lived thaw. It came to an end when Khrushchev, unnerved by the Cuban missile crisis, scornfully attacked a number of writers and artists. Later, during his retirement, Khrushchev asked me to convey his belated apologies to some of them. So, always in the past, when the international climate cooled, the ideological screws were tightened...
...Institute's caretakers are hoping that Thornburgh will be able galvanize student interest in politics, and convey the political savvy that is necessary to gain and hold political office...
...love the novel may be driven away. No one but members of creative-writing programs or departments of literature should sit still for another recitative of postmodernism's bag of tricks. The text, you see, is the generator of life, not its transcript; the only real plot that stories convey is the process of their telling. Or, as Nathan writes in a letter to Henry, "We are all the invention of each other, everybody a conjuration conjuring up everyone else. We are all each other's authors." Or, as Maria observes, "I know characters rebelling against their author has been...
...fairest of them all? Knightley's candidate is Kim Philby, the KGB's mole in British intelligence who set up the SIS's anti-Soviet division, coordinated activities with the CIA and so could convey details of the West's counterspy activity to the Kremlin. Philby, exposed by a KGB blunder, was able to escape to Moscow but not before he came within a hair of becoming "C," the chief of the SIS and, according to Knightley, "the most accomplished spy ever...
...that lie like pike beneath the news, and then, on their own peculiar impulse, rise to the surface in a later time, like ours, like yours. More than that, we would like to know what it felt like to be alive back then. That will be more difficult to convey, in part because we assume that to be human feels just about the same in any age. But we may be wrong about that as well. The terror and self-doubt we associate with being human you may have learned to cure with a shot or a pill. We will...