Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headline LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE SLANSKY TRIAL, the official organ of the East German Communist Party, Neues Deutschland, indicated that some other victims are being spotlighted. Among them: Kurt Müller, a West German Communist accused of "contacting foreign Trotzkyites like Ruth Fischer" (Eisler's estranged sister), and Paul Merker, who is a Jew, charged with "harboring the Zionist viewpoint" and acting like "another Slansky." The accusations suggested that Jewish Communists with Western, and particularly U.S., "connections" would be used as scapegoats for East Germany's economic woes. The role seemed tailor-made for Gerhart Eisler...
When reporters caught up with him a few hours later in the London suburb of Chalfont St. Peter, his sister-in-law at first denied that he was in her home, then the following day handed out a typewritten statement signed "A. N. May": "I myself think that I acted rightly and I believe many others think so too." May tried to justify his delivery of vital atomic information to Russian espionage agents (TIME, Jan. 5) by saying: "I was wholeheartedly concerned with securing victory over Nazi Germany and Japan . . . My object now is to obtain as soon as possible...
...resigned from Lawrenceville and wrote a third novel. The Woman of Andros, inspired by a play of Terence, was equally polished,* and it, too, was a success. As the royalties poured in, Wilder built his parents a house in New Haven ("the house the Bridge built"), and took his sister Isabel off to Europe. He dined with Arnold Bennett, heard G. B. Shaw lecture Mrs. Hardy on the merits of vegetarianism ("In the next room, my wife will lay before you the decaying carcasses of animals"). He went to Berlin, attended the theater almost every night, continued a project...
Cinderella sister of Oxford and Cambridge, London U. still holds its classes in workaday clothes. Its students are too busy with their books to be bothered about being gentlemen scholars. As they "came down" from the autumn term last week, they had few opportunities to wear dinner jackets, even if they owned any. Vacation meant little more than time for a trip on the underground to a Leicester Square movie rather than a Russell Square lecture...
...Strange Ones (Jean-Pierre Melville; Mayer-Kingsley). Adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terrible s, the story of a brother and sister living in a world of their own (TIME, July...