Word: nick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOLDIER'S ART, by Anthony Powell. The eighth novel in a brilliantly executed marathon series depicting what British life was like between and during the two big wars, carries Narrator-Hero Nick Jenkins into the second year of World...
...Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World War II. Jenkins carries on with his task of scoring for conversation the operatic ballet that keeps Powell's 50-odd characters dancing eccentrically until war imposes its own choreography...
...operation that a majority of Americans cannot recite even its most dramatic feats: its pinpoint reporting about day-by-day developments leading to the explosion of Red China's first nuclear device, its brilliant success in wiretapping Soviet army headquarters in East Berlin,* its nick-of-time revelation in 1962 that Russian missile bases were abuilding in Cuba. Even more mysterious to most Americans than CIA itself is its director, Richard McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, controlled, self-effacing professional who holds one of the most delicate and crucial posts in official Washington-and whose name...
...enough to show his real character. "It's wonderful if people will talk freely, just bubble on," says Theater Critic Theodore Kalem. "Lauren Bacall happens to be the bar-buddy sort of girl who is easy to talk to." New York's Mayor John Lindsay told Correspondent Nick Thimmesch: "Everybody in government would like to write his own story. Short of that, you just have to trust the reporter." And, he might have added, the writers and editors, who are responsible for how the reporter's interview is used in TIME...
...held up for half a year and then delayed an additional month to see if native money might rescue this national treasure. Government pleas, fund-raising attempts, and entreaties by Magdalene College succeeded in getting only about a third of the needed funds -until last week, when in the nick of time the remainder came from the most unexpected pockets. U.S. Book Publisher George Braziller, who has published fine art reproductions, got Eugene B. Power, founder of University Microfilms, a subsidiary of Xerox Corp., to give $200,000 to redeem the rare edition for the Cambridge scholars...