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...Stalin in 1948. His official biography of Tito so closely reflects Tito's thoughts that it reads more like the dictator's autobiography. "I love my country," said Dedijer, "and I love Tito." Vacant Home. Last week, still an eager Communist, Vladimir Dedijer found himself suddenly a pariah. His old friends cut him. His official car was taken away. His house-one of the hard-to-get good ones in Branka Djonovica Street-was without heat, and word went around Belgrade that it soon would be vacant. Summoned back from a sanitarium where he goes frequently for treatment...
...Ewart needed all the help he could get in his race against Jim Murray, who has become a habit with Montanans. Every six years, the Republicans figure Murray is ripe for plucking. His age (78) is cited against him. and he is a pariah to the Democratic isolationists following ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler. D'Ewart, whose congressional district covers more than half the state, is well-known and well-liked. Nevertheless, chances are Montana will re-elect Murray, as it has since...
...ferocious vitality and humor, Death on the Installment Plan (TIME, Aug. 29, 1938) and Journey to the End of the Night (TIME, April 30, 1934), established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation. On Feb. 21, 1950, a French court sentenced Cèline, in absentia, to national degradation for life. He has since received amnesty...
Hungry Crows. Day after day, Sriramulu lay on a charpoy (stringed cot) on the veranda of his bungalow in Madras, where the raucous cries of hungry crows mingle with the whine of pariah dogs and the screech of ancient street cars. While Sriramulu lost weight, Andhra lobbyists tried to convince Nehru. As Gandhi's dis ciple, Nehru knows the political value of a prolonged fast, but unlike the British, who eventually quavered under Gandhi's persistence, Nehru stood firm. On Sriramulu's 52nd day, Nehru warned: "This method of fasting to achieve administrative or political changes will...
Departing from psychoanalitic interpretations, Wilder outlined seven experiences which he asserted made Melville an outcast and pariah. These included revolts against 10th century American religious training and American faith in unlimited progress...