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Naturally, Nikita claimed success for his own foreign policy. The Communists were winning the cold war. and all that talk about trouble with the Chinese was an "illusion." (Same day, Peking launched a new attack on Moscow's "fierce visage but faint heart.") Then, in his folksiest manner. Khrushchev...
Died. Herbert Asbury, 71, alert recorder of the U.S.'s seamy side and impious descendant of the first Methodist bishop ordained in America, who gloriously related his own determined fall from the faith of his fathers in Up from Methodism,* went on with equal verve to chronicle underworld doings...
not illusion but Whitman called 'the path
Mirror is the key word. The Balcony takes place in a house of illusion (and ill-fame) devoted to psycho-sexual masquerades.
It catches convincingly the style and tone of a generation of intellectuals who for a long period were certain that "the forces of intelligence and enlightenment were winning . . . that the dark ages were over." That spirit and that conviction did not survive the Depression, when, says Garnett, suicide became the...