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...PROPHET OUTCAST by Isaac Deutscher. 543 pages. Oxford...
...difference is that the fanatic in power soon proves to be a monster; the fanatic who has lost his power sometimes assumes an aura of gallantry. Biographer Isaac Deutscher seems especially susceptible to this gallantry. An ex-Trotskyite and a respected writer on Communism, Deutscher has turned out an exciting, exacting biography that is very likely definitive, but he cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy...
...Hounded Exile. As this third and last and most dramatic volume of Deutscher's biography opens, Trotsky has finally been ejected from the party by Stalin, and, with his wife Natalya, deported to Princes Islands off the coast of Turkey. There the pair set up house in a dilapidated villa they rented from a bankrupt pasha. Trotsky became friendly with the local fishermen and often went out to sea with them...
Paul D. Bartlett, living Professor of Chemistry recently won the 1962 August August-Wilhelm von Hoffman medal awarded by the Deutscher Chomiker for outstanding research achievement. Bartlett received the award April 26 in Dean...
...alliance any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper was "technically false," but conceded in the next breath that it nevertheless reflected the state of Moscow-Peking relations "with 90% accuracy...