Word: deadest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deadest and most pathetic of all cats was an interpreter in the Culture Ministry who sought out Capote as a fellow artist. "I have my own telephone," boasted the artist. "Among your writers, the powerful one is A. J. Cronin. But Sholikov is more powerful, yes?" The scene in which the Russian is afraid-and afraid to admit he is afraid-to accept a few paperback books from a brother artist is a merciless ly cut cameo of intellectual life in Russia...