Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For five months Frank Duncan spent evenings with Olga, nights at home. Sometimes mother Duncan, 54, would harass Olga by telephone at the hospital; sometimes she would beat on the apartment door and scream threats. Twice Olga changed apartments to escape her mother-in-law; each time Mother Duncan trailed...
Molotov. "He let nothing escape him that appeared spontaneous. In Molotov, who was, and wanted to be, merely a perfectly adjusted cog in an implacable machine, I thought I had identified a complete success of the totalitarian system. I could feel the melancholy of it."
¶ A second group of teen-agers will learn trades or professions in threeyear, "secondary general-educational labor polytechnical schools." They will not escape calluses; the schools will be associated with factories or collective farms.
Whenever there is a tremor and a turn at the top of the Communist world, ritual requires that the losers be brought forth to confess their errors, praise their vanquishers and-possibly-face the consequences. So far Khrushchev has decreed that Old Bolshies need not die, but just fade away...
TWO WOMEN, by Alberto Moravia. For once, Italy's best writer seems to say that sex is not the most urgent business of mankind. His heroines (or victims) are a widowed mother and her daughter trying to find a quiet place to sit out the war. They are ill...