Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply into his old organization. The mole resembles Kim Philby, the famed British double agent. It was Angleton who provided some...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...
FICTION 1 -Centennial, Michener (2 lastweek) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (1) 3-Something Happened, Heller (3) 4-The Ebony Tower, Fowles (6) 5-Lady, Tryon (4) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...
...commander, C.C. Washburn, and proudly displayed it as a trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson Davis' special train left Richmond, abandoning the city to the Yankees, Foote writes, it was followed by others bearing "the marvelous and incongruous debris of the wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among...