Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his 33-year career, Bohlen has shown a tough turn of mind, an eagerness to accept responsibility and a knack for survival. He mastered Russian in his 20s, served as Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter during the President's long, private talks with Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and later performed the same duty for Harry Truman at Potsdam. In 1953, when President Eisenhower nominated him Ambassador to Moscow, Bohlen was attacked by Joe McCarthy, who charged that he had helped shape the controversial Yalta agreements. Although Bohlen insisted that he had acted only as an interpreter...
...years-even under Stalin-the outstanding exception to Communist collectivization was the privately owned Russian home. Anyone who could build one could own one. Last week the Kremlin finally got around to abolishing this flourishing capitalistic institution...
...abused to provide a forum to such persons." Most editors were not inclined to test Vorster's interpretation of abuse. Said Author Paton, who was still surprisingly unbanned: "What astonishes me is that a minister with so much power, more power than anyone has had since Hitler and Stalin, can take such savage action against people who have no power at all. It reveals to me the great anxiety of our rulers...
...Christianity. Empson fears that literary criticism has fallen into the hands of T. S. Eliot and the "neo-Christian movement." which judges all literature from a Christian viewpoint. Empson finds Satan a more likable character than God in Paradise Lost. Milton's God is "astonishingly like Uncle Joe Stalin" down to "flashes of joviality" and "bad temper," writes Empson. He tortures angels and mankind for his own amusement. Satan, on the other hand, behaves like a democrat toward fellow fallen angels, and Eve he finds a great lady in the tradition of Eleanor of Aquitaine...
NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. In the Clearing, Frost (4) 4. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 5. Conversations with Stalin, Djilas (7) 6. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (8) 7. One Man's Freedom, Williams (9) 8. Six Crises, Nixon (6) 9. Men and Decisions, Strauss 10. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson...