Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate; JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Both these new biographies contest the legend of Keats as a romantic weakling "half in love with easeful death," reveal him instead as a vigorous, tough-minded young man who fought his fatal disease as stubbornly as he did the local bully. Bate concentrates on the poet's work, Miss Ward on the poet's life...
...authors' case against the appeasers is most devastating at its most intimate. They reveal the furious maneuvers of Chamberlain to avoid war before Munich and the cowardly attempts to coerce the Poles in August 1939. During negotiations, "the appeasers never remained firm for long. The essence of their craft was weakness, vacillation and uncertainty." Their worst crime, according to the authors, was that they "saw only what they wished...
...Korth had breakfast with McNamara, returned to his office, paced back and forth, told an aide he was "mad enough to resign." At 4:30 p.m., Korth was in the White House, resignation in hand. Last week the White House made it public-but did not reveal that Korth had, in fact, been fired...
...Frontier. In Montreal last week to reveal to Quebec the full extent of its spiritual and material inheritance were Minister of State for Cultural Affairs André Malraux and 130 top French businessmen and officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...
...progress of the play is like the scrubbing away of a painting to reveal an underpainting. On the surface, a court of justices in a nameless city and country is being investigated for harboring a "pustule of leprosy." One of the justices has made himself an accomplice of an underworld moneybags, and this leper-judge has infected and diseased the whole process of justice. One clever judge, Cust, steers suspicion toward Vanan, the aging chief of the court. Vanan is innocent; yet he is shattered and acts guilty. As the investigation goes on, Cust analyzes the inner torment and Luciferian...