Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Khrushchev wastes no sympathy on Lavrenty Beria, the rival he deposed and destroyed. He pictures Stalin's secret-police chief as a cruel and cynical man whose favorite remark was "Listen, let me have him for one night, and I'll have him confessing he's the King of England." In later years, says Khrushchev, even Stalin grew to fear his fellow Georgian and the power he wielded as absolute master of the vast Cheka, or secret-police, organization. The sweeping postwar purge of the Leningrad party, Khrushchev believes, was part of a scheme masterminded by Beria...
...doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...
...Will Agnew add more than he will detract? TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele reports: "At the White House, Agnew's initial campaign bearing was seen as excellent. But by pounding too hard, particularly in the later stages of the campaign, and especially by his 'Christine Jorgenson' remark about Senator Charles Goodell, he hurt himself where it counts most -the White House." By early 1972, Agnew may have consolidated his position with conservative Republicans so well that dumping him would create more problems than it would solve; or by then he may appear to be an overwhelming liability...
Insecurity ought to be the least of Hoover's problems. Yet he can be painfully thin-skinned. Last month, 15 FBI agents dropped out of their courses at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice because a professor made a critical remark about Hoover. Two weeks later, the Bureau ordered eleven more FBI employees to withdraw from a class at the American University in Washington, B.C.-again because the professor had disparaged Hoover's leadership.* (The professor later apologized, and five of the FBI students returned.) Last week Hoover came in for some insults that...
Being a lawyer, Taylor is concerned with precedent. Being a humanist, he took seriously Justice Robert Jackson's famous Nuremberg remark that the example of a restraining law then applied to the Nazis would serve no useful purpose if it was not used to condemn aggression "by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment." Since alleged U.S. aggression in Viet Nam has lately been cited against the U.S. under the Nuremberg precedent by American soldiers refusing to fight, Tay lor set out to re-examine the war-crime concept with a view to fixing...