Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involvement in Viet Nam. Its publication, wrote Gurfein, "would [not] vitally affect the security of the nation, except in the general framework of embarrassment. A cantankerous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve freedom of expression and the right of the people to know...
Morris begins her quest by asking the trial lawyer to remain with the case. If that fails, she calls attorneys who are her personal friends, then friends of friends. "Literally every attorney I know in Georgia who does any criminal work at all has a death case," she says. Usually Morris is forced to seek out-of-state lawyers for petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court, often with the help of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the New York City-based civil rights group that has led the legal assault against capital punishment since the mid-'60s. The fund...
Robert E. Kaufmann, Harvard associate dean, on the university's $9,000 tuition, following one of the largest jumps in fees in 343 years: "We don't know if the increase will meet strong student resistance...
Those who do not yet know about her soon will. Hollywood tom-toms are all but nominating her for an Academy Award for her first screen role, in The Rose. The movie, the story of a doomed '60s rock star, is one of the few commercial hits of the fall season, and enthusiastic word of mouth is proving more potent than any advertising. Meanwhile, for those who can make it to Broadway, the lady's other, outrageously funny side is on view at the Palace Theater in Bette! Divine Madness. It is the hottest ticket in Manhattan...
Those conflicting observations give Smiley his dimension and Smiley 's People its distinction. Yet aficionados must view this work with mixed feelings. It is melancholy to realize that a weakly plotted book contains the secret agent's last bow. It is reassuring to know that even now John le Carré, Circus Master, is in Switzerland pondering the next big act for the center ring. - Stefan Kanfer