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...case of Van Cliburn would seem to indicate that the U.S. is the latest country to become a Russian satellite. Other American artists have won important contests in Brussels and elsewhere, and the only perceptible reaction in this country was a dull thud. Now Moscow has endorsed Cliburn, and the same man overnight becomes a national American hero. Are we to understand that American artists will henceforth have to pay their obeisance to Khrushchev before they can hope to be recognized in their own country...
During the forties, Fast was one of our leading historical novelists, but with the rise of the anti -Communist movement his reputation sank with a thud. He had trouble finding publishers, and when his books were published they were ignored by nearly all reviewers. After years as a respected, reviewed, widely-discussed writer, Fast found himself surrounded by silence...
...hunting expedition in Missouri, baseball's grandest unretired old (41) man, New York Yankee Outfielder Enos Slaughter, trailed his two companions and their setters by about 10 yds. Suddenly the two other hunters heard a thud just behind them. Whirling around, they saw Slaughter grinning and, a later paced-off 30 ft. from him, a rabbit kicking its last. Said Marksman Slaughter: "Well, you wouldn't want me shooting back here, so I just whomped it with a rock." Then he modestly added: "Shucks, it wasn't moving...
...these small lives and bourgeois problems, history unfolds like a rolling backdrop. There are vignettes of barbed wire and mud from the trenches, glimpses of the headlines and early newsreels of the period, episodes of the air war with the Parisian night crisscrossed by searchlights and rocked by the thud of primitive bombs. Author Troyat, Russian-born but an adoptive Frenchman since his youth, writes out of a passionate love of France. His Pierre and Amelie in their simplicity and capacity for goodness seem closer to the gentle peasant folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac. Yet even...
...four nights last week the heart of Warsaw echoed to the whomp and hiss of exploding tear-gas bombs, the thud of rubber truncheons on human flesh and the taunting cries of "Gestapo, Gestapo," that came from the throats of thousands of rioting Polish university students. It was the most serious civil disturbance since the bloody Poznan rebellion of last year...