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...Moravia and Carlos Fuentes) protested. But what got him out, five weeks later, were his own words. Padilla abjectly confessed to "a series of insults and defamations against the revolution, which are now-and always will be-my shame." He accused European leftist Writers K.S. Karol and René Dumont, who recently published critical studies of Castro's regime (TIME. Feb. 8), of being "unquestionably CIA agents...
...Matthew Dumont of the Massachusetts department of mental health sees everywhere a "new face of professionalism" turned toward social change. "Physicians, lawyers, ministers, city planners, architects, educators, engineers are emerging from the universities," he says, "with the sophisticated and critical perspective on their roles in society that John Dewey saw as the true function of education. The remarkable thing is that at a time of overwhelming technical sophistication, expertise and hyperspecialization, professionals are discovering a common purpose?the well-being of people...
...horrified to hear someone behind me at Currier House exclaiming: "Can you imagine they used to think she was beautiful" What he didn't realize is that no one, except Mae West, considered her a sex goddess. Even disregarding her face, her figure was not unlike that of Margaret Dumont, the grande dame pin-cushion in countless Marx Brothers movies: an hour-glass with rather too much sand. As Parker Tyler has suggested, West was more a female impersonator than anything else. Her "act" was not offensive because she wasn't ridiculing women, but the way men looked at women...
...born Journalist K.S. Karol, who writes out of Paris for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and Britain's New Statesman, is one. His Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution has become required reading for U.S. intelligence and Latin American specialists. French Agronomist Réne Dumont also faults Castro in his Cuba: Is It Socialist...
...Both authors contend that one of Castro's earliest mistakes was setting up incorrect goals and improper procedures. "An encircled country like Cuba could not permit herself the luxury of gradual progress," admits Karol. "Sacrifices that have been [too] prolonged have become unbearable for the people today," says Dumont...