Word: rasputin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a ghost out of his own past, the frail Russian prince sat in a darkened Manhattan courtroom and watched a TV re-enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
Though he rejected the job of U.S. Solicitor General in 1932 (the same year he turned down a judgeship on Massachusetts' highest bench), Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice...
Texas liberals, who are unhappy with their Governor because he settles for so many half-loaves and refuses to talk like a liberal, are scathingly portrayed as a cynical, ingrown coterie that spends most of its time boozing and rutting. Fenstemaker, groans one liberal, is "Mahatma Gandhi and Rasputin, the Prince of Darkness and the goddam Mystic Angel." But he concedes that the old fox "knew what absolutely had to be done; he could engage himself and then withdraw without losing that commanding vision...
...some, Ngo Dinh Can seemed to be the ablest of the ill-fated Ngo brothers. Although he never held an official position in the Diem regime, he was the overlord of central Viet Nam. A rural Rasputin in high-collared mandarin robes who wenched and swindled lustily, he nevertheless ran his fief so effectively that it had less trouble from the Viet Cong than any other area. Can in vain advised his brothers, President Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, to ease the measures against the Buddhists-not out of idealism but to avoid rocking the boat...
...Died. René Fülôp-Miller, 72, multi-faceted biographer (Rasputin: The Holy Devil, 1928), historian (The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, 1930), novelist (The Night of Time, 1955) and student of psychology, philosophy and Communism, a Hungarian-born pharmacist's son who journeyed to Leningrad in 1923 where he studied in Pavlov's Institute of Experimental Medicine while observing Bolshevism's early years, then went to Vienna in 1927 to study with Freud for a year before joining a colony of Greek hermit monks, and in 1930 came to the U.S. where...