Word: maclean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS, by A/isfair MacLean (301 pp.; Doubleday...
With speed and resolution that were conspicuously lacking when they popped the closet eleven years ago, Her Majesty's government moved last week to reinter Britain's Public Skeletons 1 and 2: Donald Duart Maclean, now 48, and Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 51, the blue-eyed Foreign Office homosexuals whose 1951 elopement to the Soviet Union prompted one of then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson's rare outbursts. Said he: "My God, Maclean knew everything...
...time of their defection, intimates and superiors-who included some of Britain's most respected intellectuals and public officials-argued by spy-thriller logic that neither Donald Maclean nor Guy Burgess could possibly be a spy. Said one friend: "They were too obvious." Both, it turned out, were combative, neurotic alcoholics who blabbed official secrets at cocktail parties, were avowed proCommunists, had been officially reprimanded for their indiscretions...
...lower-echelon Foreign Office career, handsome, curly-haired Guy Burgess was constantly in trouble, physically dirty and in debt; naturally, no one took seriously his close friendship with Atom Spy Alan Nunn May. Though a known homosexual and prone to savage fits of violence, flabby, fair-haired Donald Maclean was privy to top-level U.S. atomic information as wartime First Secretary in Britain's Washington embassy, later headed the American desk in the Foreign Office. To one casual acquaintance, Maclean's allegiance to Communism "stuck out a mile." Yet, though they might be "eccentric," both were "gentlemen." Today...
Deathwatch, a play written more from experience and less from speculation than Genet's two New York hits, would ring true if the actors didn't consistently obstruct the lines. Sadly though, Peter MacLean as Green Eyes is the only lead with feeling or understanding in his voice; and even he seems tempted to substitute crescendo for these qualities...