Word: toiler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entered politics in early middle age after winning fame in that all-American institution Hollywood. He rose to the presidency largely because he was able to articulate a personal ideological view on television more forcefully than anyone else. Andropov is the consummate Communist Party operative, a nearly faceless toiler in the political establishment of the U.S.S.R. all his adult life, head for 15 years of that quintessentially Soviet organization the KGB, a man who attained power by sophisticated backstage maneuvering in the ingrown, secretive Politburo...
...press releases and reviews, Barbara Pym's life has been summarized in a way that makes her sound very much like an "excellent woman": unmarried, a toiler in scientific fields, a woman who stopped writing when her publisher rejected one of her manuscripts. A Very Private Eye, an autobiography drawn from her diaries to be published next spring, gives a livelier picture. A lawyer's daughter from Shropshire, she lived an intense student life at Oxford in the '30s. Her knowledge of the sad imbalances of love came from several unfortunate affairs. Her first book, Some Tame...