Word: counterplots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just literary exercises in devious plot & counterplot; a few are plotless casuals of Jews at home, at work & play; but most of them employ a simple plot to make a simple point-the joy, or sadness, or mystery of living...
...vast, inflammatory archives, so that the hushed new Romanesque tower is a storehouse of most of the social and political dynamite of our times. There are the secret minutes of chancelleries and general staffs, secret memoirs, state papers, conspiratorial records of revolutionary parties and governments, data on plot and counterplot, war, espionage, assassination, treason. Far more complete than the great French, British and German war libraries (even if these were available), the Hoover Library makes Stanford the future focus for all important study in 20th-century social history...