Word: maclean
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...always teddibly English and utterly U (though Connery was a working- class Scot). To a nation that had seen its empire shrink in rancor, and its secret service embarrassed by the Burgess-Maclean and Profumo scandals, the notion of a British agent saving the free world was a tonic made in Fantasyland. The Beatles might have made Britain swinging for the young, but Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs (including Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die) on the pop charts. But their signal influence was closer...
...Britain sex is lethal, while it seems that spying, though regrettable, can be lived with. A series of sensational double agents at high levels of British intelligence, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt, never seriously rocked the British ship of state. But sex scandals have regularly felled British political figures, from War Secretary John Profumo in 1963 to Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Jeffrey Archer last year...
EVER SINCE the story broke in 1951 that Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, all top ranking members of British intelligence, had been secretly spying for the Soviets, writers and directors have returned time and again to the case as classic source material. Scores of books of both fact and fiction have played on the public's endless astonishment at the depths of the treachery, which, at the height of the Cold War, reached into Britain's most prized military secrets...
...hammered out. Perhaps the principal accomplishment of the Sidle commission was simply to get the Pentagon and the press talking again. "I think there is a general recognition that things should have been done differently in Grenada," concluded longtime Associated Press Pentagon Correspondent Fred Hoffman. Said John MacLean, Washington news editor for the Chicago Tribune: "It's good that they sat down and had both military and press people express their feelings. It remains to be seen how it works out in practice." The commission's report summed up the situation: "An adversarial relationship between the media...
...medical theorist. Dr. Paul D. MacLean, has suggested that when a man lies down on a psychiatrist's couch, a horse and a crocodile lie down beside him. People, according to MacLean's theory, have not one but three brains: neomammalian (the human), paleomammalian (the horse) and reptilian (the crocodile). Certain primitive tribesmen make no distinction between human and animal life but assume that all life is roughly the same. It simply takes up residence in different forms, different bodies. Higher cultures do not make that organic assumption; they are haunted by the animal...