Word: ob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iron Curtain authors share -or can afford to indulge- the Poles' ob session with political commentary. Mihail Sadoveanu, the son of an illiterate Ruma nian peasant, somehow learned to write, and from 1904 until his death last year turned out 120 books, became one of his country's most famous authors. He was in no sense an apolitical artist - in fact, he served as president of the first Presidium when the Russians forcibly converted Rumania to Communism in 1947 (which helps explain why translations of his work are now offered as the first fruit of a new cultural...
Like the Washington press corps as a whole, the pundits are mostly Democratic. Among their ranking members is the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston. "There is a basic difference between the two candidates which no ob ligation to objectivity can conceal," wrote Reston last week. "The two men have reacted differently to the savage pressures of the last two months. Nixon is aiming lower and concentrating on stopping bad things, while Kennedy is concentrating on starting new things. The Vice President is still painfully selfconscious, while Kennedy is increasingly self-assured. Kennedy seems...
Thurs., April 7 Revlon Revue (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Co medians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding lead a pub crawl through Manhattan. Ob served en route: Singers Peggy Lee and Felicia Sanders, Dancer Jose Greco...