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...miles to the right of Ivan the Terrible. But to those of us who love him, he's only a little to the south of John C. Calhoun." Outraged readers scrawl obscenities on his columns and mail them back to him, which amuses him; radical students hiss and turn their backs on him at campus lectures, which hurts his feelings. The hurt is salved by his fan mail from the Silent Majority, which is rhapsodic...
...work for the League of Nations, and later became wartime European head of the Unitarian Service Committee's relief activities. Fired from that post because of allegations that he was sympathetic to Communists, Field went to Prague, and three weeks before the beginning of the Alger Hiss trial was abducted to Hungary by Communist agents. He was stigmatized by assorted Iron Curtain regimes as a wartime spy for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, but for reasons not made clear, he was never brought to trial. Until his death he worked as a copyreader for the government...
Haldeman joined the advertising firm of J. Walter Thompson in 1949, just as the Alger Hiss trial was in full swing, and again found himself under the spell of a crusading Nixon. By 1956 he had joined Nixon as an advance man and within four years, he was chief of the advance men in the presidential campaign. "I labeled him the chief of the frogmen because he and his crew were always hopping about," says Herb Klein. "His wife collects artificial frogs even...
...interspersing of frequent asides and stream-of-consciousness speeches creates the undramatic effect of a man too busy commenting on his life to live it. As Alan, Christopher Walken handles these technical devices with an admirable fluidity, and makes the boy more humanly vulnerable than his words. In the hiss-the-father department, Charles Durning fashions an equally well-shaded portrait of a smarmy hypocrite, instant bully and moral ferret...
...Zealand's Janet Frame, history is a hereditary malignancy that engulfs the present and dooms the future to madness, loneliness and death. Intensive Care, her eighth novel, continues her preoccupation with the subject. At one point, she even spells history "hiss-tree," linking it uncomfortably with Eden's serpent. "All dreams," she writes, "lead back to the nightmare garden...