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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. A warm and witty portrait that reveals Johnson's Boswell was less a fool than he is sometimes thought to be, though perhaps more a fool than he ought to have been...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. A warm and witty portrait that reveals Johnson's Boswell was less a fool than he is sometimes thought to be, though perhaps more a fool than he ought to have been...
...stayed tough throughout the trial. Sinyavsky, cool, red-bearded, and looking, as Hayward reports, "rather like a good-natured goblin," was the harder of the two. He was charged with besmirching the image of Lenin by imagining a room whose walls were papered with currency bearing Lenin's portrait. He had further smeared Soviet womanhood by writing: "You see women walking about the streets, looking like Eunuchs -waddling like pregnant dachshunds, or as scrawny as ostriches, with swollen bodies, varicose veins, wadded breasts or tight stays hidden under their clothes." The magistrates were greatly offended by Sinyavsky...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. This warm and perceptive portrait reveals Johnson's biographer as one of the most dedicated rakehells of his or anyone else's time...
...supervise British settlements in the Western Hemisphere. After the American colonists revolted-partly in protest against the unenlightened policies of Colonial Secretaries-the Colonial Office was abolished for nearly 75 years, and its functions reverted to other ministries. When the Colonial Office was formally re-established in 1854, a portrait of George Washington was whimsically hung over the fireplace in the Colonial Secretary's office as a reminder of the mistakes of his predecessors...