Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abroad-that the U.S. intervention marks a return to "gunboat diplomacy." Many persistent critics, particularly in academic circles, further argue that the Administration acted, in fact "overreacted," without provocation; that the rebels in Santo Domingo represent a legitimate democratic revolution. "On the evidence presented so far," wrote Notre Dame History Professor Samuel Shapiro in the Nation, "the Dominican revolution is no more Communist-controlled than the C.I.O. or the civil rights movement." Poet Archibald MacLeish attributed the U.S. response to "the old myopia of the McCarthy days." On more realistic grounds, a number of experts concede that the intervention...
...favorite role was in last year's The Killers. "In the opening," he recalls, "me and my partner sidle into a blind home looking for a doublecrosser. I get behind the head blind dame, grab her by the throat and push her almost to the floor. 'Where's Johnny North?' I breathe in her ear. So she tells us. I barge into the room knocking the blindees over-we used real ones-and I say, 'You Johnny North?' He says yeah. So we take out our guns and we put ten bullets...
Hitler's orders were blunt: if Paris could not be defended against the onrushing Allied armies, it was to be destroyed. The bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, even the Eiffel Tower, were to be blasted to oblivion. The conquerors were to find that, in its dying gasp, the Thousand-Year Reich had leveled a thousand years of Western history's most treasured monuments, leaving Paris, in Hitler's words, "nothing but a blackened field of ruins...
TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Memoirs completed shortly before Dame Edith's death last year that shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and a self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity and imagination...
Died. Maria Dabrowska, 75, Poland's grande dame of letters and critic of Communist censorship, who last year joined 33 prominent intellectuals in a forlorn bid for greater freedom, and persisted after others gave up, best known for her sensitive four-volume saga (Nights and Days, 1934) of the rural gentry, and later studies of the landless peasantry; of heart and kidney ailments; near Warsaw, Poland...