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These same pronouncements, despite sharply critical reports from Labourites who went to Moscow, continued to stress the need for normal relations with the Soviet state. As Mr. Graubard points out, Labour's initial position as a pariah in domestic politics resembled that of the Bolsheviks in the community of nations. Moreover, they faced a common enemy: "The forces which engineered Khaki elections, and published posters with slogans of 'red menace' attached to gory images, were now involved in creating and ostracizing a foreign 'foe.' The Labour Party's adversary was also Russia's enemy; how sensible, therefore, that the party...
...eight weeks. I may go back, but, of course, I might be told to get out. I feel like an outcast." The New York Post, one of Winchell's many mortal enemies, gleefully reported that vindictive Host Billingsley had hauled off the wall a heroic portrait of Pariah Winchell. A couple of days later, however, vacationing Winchell hinted to his devoted readers: "WW's photo is back on the Stork Club foyer wall. (Tha-anks a large Lump!)." At week's end Billingsley seemed mystified by the large Lump: "It's clear that Winchell is angry...
...lack of inhibition that lent the gusto of irresponsibility to a natural raconteur has made nonsense of the notion that Miller is a philosopher and a sage. Not to all, however. There are those to whom state ments such as "In America, the artist is ever an outcast, a pariah" do not read like something misprinted on a card given out in a gypsy tearoom. Indeed, there are those-and Alfred Perles. is determined not to be the least-to whom such words, from Miller's larynx, "make one think of cathedral bells...
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...have been their finest hour-but not for Commando Officers and Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh writes about in his second novel about World War II. With his elite brigades buried in Eastern Mediterranean retreat, the boss commandoman in London could count for instant offensive action exactly six men and a pariah captain left at home in a shipping snafu. Desperate for any justifying achievement, the general ordered out these seven, with his press officer, on a radar-smashing raid by submarine on a Channel islet...