Word: kantor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist for 26 of his 58 years, he fled before Hitler's conquering armies to safety in the U.S., returned to East Germany after World War II. as did his Communist friends Gerhart and Hanns Eisler,* to revile the country that had granted him asylum. "Kantor," as he was called, put out a highbrow Marxist review called Ost und West, and peddled the rest of his poison in the Soviets' German-language newspaper Tägliche Rundschau. The Tägliche Rundschau saluted Kantor, the saturnine lecturer on German literature at East Berlin's Humboldt University...
...Path. But somewhere along the twists of the post-Stalinist line. Kantor got off the path to East Germany's future. Like so many other satellite intellectuals, he had kicked off his snowshoes in the cultural thaw that followed Khrushchev's attack on Stalinist tyranny. In June 1956. at a time when the rest of the world was yet only dimly aware of the courageous activities of dissident writers of Budapest's Petofi Club, Kantor gave them guarded support in the Communist Berliner Zeitun'g. After the Petofi protest became the Hungarian revolt, all Eastern Europe...
...Communist East Germany's general reaction is good riddance. But Kantorowicz's broadcast seemed to bother the Communists very much. Seven tame literary idols, among them Anna (The Seventh Cross) Seghers, were trotted out to condemn their comrade's "stab in the back." Nonsense, retorted Kantor easily, "most of those writers feel the same...
Sidney, who is preparing to film Mackinlay Kantor's Andersonville for Columbia Pictures, called in lawyers to see if there was a case against Climax for its production of The Trial of Captain Wirz, the Andersonville Jailer (TIME, July 8). Twentieth Century-Fox still seethed over Climax' play The Dark Wall, which the studio thinks resembled its forthcoming Three Faces of Eve. The situation is so touchy that CBS rejected a script about Actress Jeanne Eagels for fear of enraging Columbia, whose Jeanne Eagels, starring Kim Novak, is awaiting release...
MacKinlay Kantor, novelist. . . Litt.D...