Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darkness at Noon. Sidney Kingsley's effective dramatization of Arthur Koestler's sharp expose of the Moscow trials and the Communist mind (TIME...
...Kingsley Martin, anti-American editor of Britain's pinko New Statesman and Nation (circ. 87,156), frequently writes as though the U.S., not Russia, is pushing the world toward atomic war. When Editor Martin heard U.S. Columnist Stewart Alsop assure Britain on a BBC program that "a certain left-wing British magazine," i.e., the New Statesman, was all wrong in any such interpretation of U.S. policy, Martin's feathers ruffled...
...Kingsley Martin, and I suppose there's no use trying to find out. Almost everything he has said and written in the last year or so has sounded like a sort of excitable, left-wing parody of Colonel McCormick...
...Kingsley's N. S. Rubashov is, like Koestler's, a fallen intellectual commissar whose own harsh weapons have been turned against him. He will soon be shot, but, because of his importance, he must be made to confess his "crimes." He remains the old-line Bolshevik who does confess, who does die a Communist, though the Communism he dies...
When a poor crofter's son named Daniel Macmillan went to London to make his fortune, he had little more than his Scottish canniness and a strong desire to become a book publisher. In 1843, from friends and Author Charles Kingsley, he and younger brother Alexander got a little capitaland something more valuable. Kingsley wrote Westward Ho! for the new firm and got it off to a flying start. By 1896 business was good enough to set up an American firm under British-born George P. Brett and controlled by Macmillan in London. The offspring soon grew...