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...would have stalled a clumsy novelist. But Novelist Waltari is anything but clumsy. Dramatically and lavishly, he paints in the spectacular background-the campfires of the approaching Turks lining the night horizon, the arrival of their army ("a huge, living carpet seemed to cover the earth"), the roar and hiss of the foundries relentlessly churning out the Sultan's culverins and giant bombards. At first, the massive walls of Constantinople seem little affected; then telltale lines begin to streak down the masonry, widening into fundamental fractures and splits. In these splits lies a Waltari message, i.e., that when Christians...
...York housewife, after praising the patriotism of inquiring Congressmen, suggested, "I think the professors and students of colleges should get their ideological education in the Korean trenches, where communists are killing American boys. I do not believe inexperienced youth can judge any ideology objectively, from professors who taught Alger Hiss, Lee, Pressman and other disloyal Harvard graduates...
Onetime Lords Chancellor are forbidden to return to the practice of law. Lord Jowitt, with time on his hands, turned to the study of the Hiss case. With the affinity of many non-Communist leftists for the Hiss defense, and with the British tendency to consider the U.S. "hysterical" about Communists, it surprised no one that Jowitt found for Alger Hiss. It may be a shock to some readers, however, that a onetime Lord Chancellor does "not pretend to know" about Communist morality and that he cannot get facts as an ordinary American jury got them...
...today in the form of a "cultural lag" by which intellectuals, even though anti-Communist, each year sanctify a martyr to the cause of academic freedom or free speech who later turns out to have been a practicing Communist or fellow-traveler. A couple of years ago it was Hiss," he said. "Now it is Lattimore...
Lasky is the co-author, with Ralph de Toledano, of "Seeds of Treason," a study of the Hiss case, and wrote the script for "The Hoaxsters," a film short exposing Communist techniques...