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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander Ginzburg called them, that The First Circle is most harrowing. Solzhenitsyn writes of one of these camp complexes as "a kingdom bigger than France." Each camp bore a bucolic code name such as Lake Camp, Steppe Camp, Sandy Camp. "You'd think there must be some great, unknown poet in the secret police, a new Pushkin," writes Solzhenitsyn. "He's not quite up to a full-length poem, but he gives these wonderful poetic names to concentration camps." These passages obviously parallel Solzhenitsyn's own experiences; after his years in Mavrino, he was sent to such a camp...
...more complex than man has ever known. Yet not even Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...
...trying conditions. Its budget barely pays the phone bill. Its edtorial headquarters is one shabby room near the University of Texas. Its fulltime writing staff has rarely numbered more than two. Its most distinguished alumnus, Harper's Editor Willie Morris, recalled last week: "Every Friday afternoon we'd have a full-fledged story conference at Scholz's beer hall. Then one of us would go out of town, and the other would stay behind and put out the paper. The guy who remained had to do everything: editing, copy-reading, makeup. He would even...
More recently, the embarrassment has been compounded by another revelation about the his-her theses-an account of the U.S. Marines' 1915-34 occupation of Haiti. The military-affairs writer for the Detroit News, Robert D. Heinl Jr., a retired Marine colonel, says that the theses also bear strange similarities to an official 1934 Marine Corps report and a 1939 Marine history of the American intervention. In 1955, when the Naval Institute published McCrocklin's dissertation as a book, it listed him as "compiler" rather than author. In Who's Who in America, however, McCrocklin credited himself...
...They just told us we'd have to leave and find another place by ourselves," said Deloros, who confessed that she left the village mayor's office in tears of rage after a meeting on the urban renewal project. (The developer commented that he would try to find a new location for the Sunset, but that the law did not require him to do so.) "If you asked the people around here, they'd tell you that they don't want us to leave," Deloros said. "We're not opposed to the new housing and all but we think they...