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Whimpering Puppies. In The Golden Fruits, the delivery of a critical opinion can be an appeal for love-or an attempt at assassination. A fashionable author, who has been unwise enough to admit he does not like the book, is forced to cling to a dowdy female guest for support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mayhem & Manners | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Would Communism under Trotsky have been different? As a personality, Trotsky was far more appealing than Stalin. In some ways, this anti-individualist was a true Renaissance man: brilliant orator, tough administrator, incisive historian, spectacular general. But he was also a fanatic and almost as contemptuous of human freedom as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hell-Black Night | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hell-Black Night | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

"I Reject It." As Morton sat down, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore sprang to his feet, praised him for his speech, then seconded it in powerful words: "I accept no blame for what this demented man did. I feel no sense of personal guilt. He is the one who had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That Soul Is Stout | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Next morning Saadi's supporters in the labor unions and the National Guard poured into the streets of Baghdad, led by Air Force Colonel Munzer Wandari, a fiercely mustachioed fanatic who personally took up a jet fighter and strafed the presidential palace with rockets. When the moderates called on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Danger: Professor at Work | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

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