Word: grise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general charge of the political campaign in the South is Communist Party Secretary Le Duan. Considerably less known in the West than his comrades, he prefers the role of éminence grise; he is the only one of North Viet Nam's revolutionary leaders who is of lower-class stock. Le Duan took responsibility for the campaign against the South in 1956 and helped create the National Liberation Front in 1960. An independent-minded hardliner, Le Duan resisted pressures to run the war along either Soviet or Chinese lines, proclaiming instead the "creative nature" of the Vietnamese revolution. Western...
Even out of context one could swiftly establish that the Senator in question was named Joseph, not Eugene. Yet few Americans, even today, would guess that the admonitory voice and the bitter sentiment about the Right came from Whittaker Chambers, the man so long cast as the eminence grise behind the Great Red Hunt of the 1950s. That gloomy misjudgment was Chambers' considerable cross to bear during the closing decade of his shadowed life. For the rest of us it is a significant loss that a mind as remarkable as his and a life lived so close...