Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: To describe Vladimir Tallin as a product of Communism [Aug. 9] is incorrect. He was a rebel and a free thinker. I knew Tallin in the mid-thirties, in the days when Russian men of culture were slaughtered in the name of international Communism. I last saw him in...
LIKE all the correspondents in Chicago, the TIME contingent soon learned that covering the Democratic Convention was a demanding task. It required an uncommon agility in crowds, a determined concentration in the confusion of the gallery, and the strength to bounce back from a dose of Mace or tear gas...
Not Robert Kennedy, who, as everyone had pointed out, would wait four more years-but then rushed into the race after McCarthy's victory. Not Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet...
Retired Mouth. As Talent Associates' president, Susskind shares that expec tation. Privately held by himself and two equal partners, Daniel Melnick and Leonard Stern, the company had rev enues last year of about $15 million, and its profits were in "the seven-figure category." That was a vast improvement...
Enervated Limbo. Armah's anonymous antihero, referred to as "the man," works in a dim, suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown...