Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the original fog of concession talk had in fact swirled up behind Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, as he journeyed from Moscow to Paris to Bonn to Washington last month, trailing anonymous spokesmen who talked about recasting the situation, making a start on troop reductions in Germany, etc. Macmillan, by his record no soft-liner, had nonetheless stirred worries about appeasement among other NATO members...
...result, anybody who is either interested in observing how Communist show-pieces work, or who wants to talk with convinced Communists, runs the risk of having an unfavorable addition to his dossier, and probably encountering considerable difficulty in obtaining security clearances. Thus, the government effectively prevents the scientists and would-be public servants who must fear official comments from taking any part in the Festival...
...Whether this development shows a) a remarkable talent for double incompetency, i.e., she reads a good piece, doesn't like it but prints it anyway, or b) that good writers and poets aren't really ashamed to see themselves appear in her pages, is hard to say. One should talk sweet of the aged, and of the performance in her current issue, such talk need be neither hypocritical nor gratuitous. If a reader wishes there were a little more of her, he can comfort himself by sensing that she is, at least, there. A fellow can ask little else...
...journalist as well as a novelist (he is an associate editor of TIME), has an unerring eye for the Manhattan landscape, a faithful ear for the speech of the superficially smart. Although he never preaches, and the explicit statement of his theme never rises above the pitch of party talk, the reader is not allowed to forget the book's title; it would be a different story if any of the characters really had a notion...