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Fall & Comeback: After Zhukov had basked beside Dwight Eisenhower for six months as Allied joint commander in Berlin, Stalin moved to strip him of his war-won glory. In his secret speech to the 20th Congress, Khrushchev told how the jealous Stalin spread stories that "before each operation at the front Zhukov used to take a handful of earth, smell it and say: 'We can begin the attack,' or the opposite: 'The planned operation cannot be carried out.' " Zhukov was banished for six years, to Odessa, then to the Urals. But within 24 hours of Stalin...
...limit of intelligibility has been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example, "I'll tear her all to pieces." Most actors would here face the balcony and bellow their guts out. But Hyman, realizing that at this point in the drama Iago has not yet fully drawn...
Memorial Hall loomed large before 900 hesitant and expectant freshmen on the morning of September 21, 1928, as they filed before "the huge Gothic pile" to register as members of the Class of 1932. The eyes of Burke and Chatham looked severely down upon them, the jealous gargoyles stared angrily at the Yard behind them, and the clangor of the bell seemed to make time itself revert to the 19th century as they enrolled...
...everyone was happy. "The whole Jordan nation is in prison," shrilled a Cairo newspaper, though at the same time Nasser's government was piously insisting: "Egypt is more jealous than any other country of Jordan's independence...
...born 2,000 years ago last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox a jealous husband or mistress, how to brazen out an infidelity (lie about it). It also offers a whole dictionary of lovers' lore, from aphrodisiacs ("Others say pepper is good") to proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid...