Word: gunthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union, the omens read, sales would be low of the bestselling Inside Russia Today by Reporter John Gunther. One omen: a blistering review in the powerful Literary Gazette, official voice of the Soviet Writers' Union. Conceding that Gunther had some of his facts straight on Soviet industry and culture, the Gazette dismissed the latest Inside story as "ill-intentioned lies and malinformed assertion," containing analyses of Marxism and Soviet history that are "slanderous, libelous and inaccurate...
...Insider John Gunther, she "swept through Europe, an amiable, blue-eyed tornado." To Columnist Heywood Broun, she was "a victim of galloping nascence," whose speeches in one year would "constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon." But to approving readers of her three-a-week column of political analysis, "On the Record" (147 papers), durable Dorothy Thompson was a snappish combination of Cassandra and Joan of Arc, the first and finest of political newshens...
With vague longings to be a writer, Dorothy sailed to England in 1920, became a reporter when International News Service signed her to cover a Zionist conference in London. For the next eight years, she matched wits with the sharpest scoop hounds in Europe-Gunther, Floyd Gibbons, Walter Duranty. She covered a Polish coup d'etat in evening dress, with the help of $500 lent her by Sigmund Freud. With verve and clarity, she analyzed the mood of Depression-hit Germany. But her best-known bit of punditry was also her worst: in 1932 she produced a book...
...Milton Babbitt once said, "isn't necessarily just what is improvised after 4 a.m. on 52nd Street." To prove it, he accepted an invitation from Brandeis University last summer to write one of six jazz compositions for the annual Brandeis arts festival. Also represented: Composers Harold Shapero and Gunther Schuller, Jazzmen Charlie Mingus, Jimmy Giuffre and George Russell. Their efforts are now presented by Columbia on an album entitled Modern Jazz Concert. The selections range from Russell's blues-favored All About Rosie, "on a motif taken from an Alabama Negro children's song game," to Babbitt...
...that Westerners first realized that a great change had come over their Soviet colleagues. At previous conferences, the Russians spoke only Russian, kept to themselves, and if asked a specific question, were apt to feign ignorance. But at Geneva, they were magpie-ready to talk. Aerodynamic Expert Gunther Bock, one of the German scientists taken to Russia after the war, went home to report that "in branches of science where Marxism-Leninism is not directly applicable, there is no feeling of oppression. I could discuss my field with no sense of being in Russia or America or Brazil." Adds...