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Former Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, who died in 1971 at the age of 77, once warned a Kremlin colleague that he might some day rise from the grave and tell his tale, despite the silence imposed on him by the men who had forced him into retirement. This week TIME presents the first of two sets of excerpts from a forthcoming volume of memoirs in which Khrushchev makes good on his prophecy. He emerges as a candid, pungent and uniquely qualified commentator on recent Soviet history...
Perhaps because he has had so much experience packing duffel bags, Bunting gets a great deal into fewer than 250 pages. He has an old-fashioned social novelist's knack of sketching characters and setting scenes. But he also puts a fresh wrinkle in the old tale of a cold sophisticate getting burned by the rube. Yankee versions customarily make the rube goodhearted. But Adams and Giles both represent a failure of what Americans like to think of as an egalitarian society. Adams' understated, institutionalized arrogance and Giles' blustering, rude arrogance are not different in substance. Only...
Euripedes' Helen is a fairy tale built on the story of the bard Steischorus. He claimed that not Helen, but Helen's wraith, had gone to Troy, while she herself remained in Egypt until her ship-wrecked husband Menelaus, King of Sparta, finally arrived and found her there 15 years later...
...Butley, who teaches English literature at a London university, is generally befogged and intermittently besieged. An arch ex-wife seeks him out with the news that she plans to remarry. Students descend on him for tutorials, inundate him with papers like "Hate and Redemption in A Winter's Tale. "Edna Shaft (Jessica Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover, Reg, whom Butley disdains. This news stirs not only jealousy...
Graphic Understatement. Such a tale is easy to sensationalize. As headlines flashed round the world, North American publishers rushed in, carrying cash and book contracts. The job of describing the tragedy eventually went to a British novelist, Piers Paul Read (The Professor's Daughter, Monk Daw son), whom the survivors, after considerable reflection and an interview, personally selected to tell their story. The choice proved sound...