Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government radio. Then, in an abrupt switch, McHale got a summons to police headquarters, was given twelve hours to get out of the country. Two other U.S. correspondents, CBS's Winston Burdett and U.P.I.'s Larry Collins, got similar calls. The only explanation given the three men, none of whom had been in Iraq for more than 18 days on this visit: "You have been here long enough." As he packed up hurriedly for the trip back to his base in Beirut, McHale had a wry reaction to the inscription Kassem had written on his autographed photo...
...first country to go up in flames." In America, he said, "people who incite to war are even listened to by Senators," but if such admirals and generals hope by their "crazy declarations" to frighten Russians, "as the saying goes, look for fools in some other village, there are none in ours...
...work developing the story further from a score of sources (including some top Pentagon scientists), worked so secretly that even the Times's Washington bureau had no inkling of the project. After the tests, the pair found many scientists who wanted all the data made public, but none who was able-or willing-to lay it all out in one package. As their material grew, the Timesmen repeatedly urged the Pentagon to release the story in full...
...over it. His final ironic twist is both fiendish and plausible, but he leads up to it in a sententious, preachy chapter. And the carefully spelled-out fact that selflessness and faith were the road to Matthäi's breakdown creates an atmosphere of intense depression. But none of these shortcomings can really harm an unconventional and psychologically ingenious mystery story...
...Petersburg can be taken as a sharp, jittery account of an explosive moment in Russian history, as a symbol-laden probe of the Russian temperament, or as a condemnation of nihilism. As a story about tormented oddballs, it needs none of these assists, but they enrich a difficult book that rises above its difficulties...