Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold & Deep. N.Z.Z.'s 15 full-time and 20 part-time correspondents (four in the U.S.) make up the biggest foreign staff of any newspaper of its circulation in the world. But they seldom bother with spot news. For example, on June 17, 1953, the paper's Berlin...
But Salisbury got an eyewitness view of how little Russia has actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of...
Two new books will be invaluable keys both to Turgenev and to the "mystery" of Russian slavishness. The Turgenev Family, an eyewitness report written in 1884 by Varvara Zhitova, adopted daughter of Turgenev's mother, is like the beginning of a psychiatrist's case history: it deals with...
Isabella Eberhardt, who died in 1904 aged only 27, was born in Geneva, the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate mother. Of Russo-Jewish stock, Isabelle had manly ambitions from childhood. Shortly after the family had settled in North Africa, her mother died. From that time, Isabelle's life was...
The omen was favorable. But who could depend on it? Behind locked doors, many Moroccan nationalists celebrated the day in the name of exiled Ben Youssef. A more significant omen for Morocco's future took place in the city of Port Lyautey. There 8.000 to 10.000 resentful Arabs, led...