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This history, as I have suggested, may be divided into three periods of the type which I have described. The ideological nature of the consensus that dominated each of these cycles cannot easily be summed up in a paragraph, much less in a phrase. Each was complex, interwoven, and subject to constant changes in emphasis to meet current political pressures...
Despite the imaginative title, Brief has produced little in the text to rival Kinsey. In a paragraph headed "What About Sex?" the author says "Like hunger and thirst, sex is a human drive...
...take the most measured and courteous exception to your paragraph about me and my partner Charles Clegg in your People section [Feb. 27]? Not the part that says I am an old codger, a boozer, and no-gooder, all of which is doubtless too true. The private car Virginia City is not, however, my car. It belongs jointly and in equal partnership to Charles Clegg and Lucius Beebe, and I would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made...
...statement gave Burgess the credit for masterminding their escape to Russia. "Only there, it seemed to them, was there a possibility to put into practice in one form or another the convictions which they had always held." Then, in its last paragraph, the statement switched back to the first person: "Our life in the Soviet Union has convinced us that we took at that time the correct decision...
...Lines in Pravda. But the big tip-off that all was not well with Kruglov came recently with the report that six former NKVD interrogators had been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...