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...attempts to stamp out the small but stubbornly burning flame of Russian Jewish culture. No man came closer to succeeding than Joseph Stalin. In 1948, the birth of Israel stirred up Stalin's lifelong suspicion of Soviet Jewry, and he launched a massive purge that erased nearly every trace of Jewish culture. Three Yiddish journals were banned; a Yiddish publishing house was closed; four Yiddish theaters went by the boards; 450 Yiddish writers, painters, actors and musicians were slaughtered. Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept...
...very long. Says one colonel: "If you're 'it' and you've been 'it' for a few days, you'd better watch out." His job may be no more demanding than calling an air express agent at 3 a.m. to trace a high-priority package. But it may also be chasing down a truly dangerous bandit. Example: finding out what happened in the collapse a fortnight ago of a 58-ton silo door at a Titan complex near Denver, which killed five men, indicated that the design of the huge doors...
Among his relentless, cold-blooded fellow plotters. Walter Ulbricht stood out as the iciest of them all, for he had no trace of sentiment or warmth. He was generally despised even by his colleagues; "Tovarish Woodenhead," they sneered behind his back because of his mimicry of Moscow. The great female stalwart of German Communism, Klara Zetkin, once remarked: "May a benevolent fate prevent this man from ever rising to the top of the Communist Party. I cannot stand him. Look into his eyes and you will see how sly and false...
Donald Davis' Achilles and Colgate Salsbury's Potroclus are smooth, beautifully adjusted performances. There is no attempt to hide their homosexuality; in fact, their spiritual and physical love is made quite obvious, yet without a trace of effeminacy--which is precisely right for the bravest of the Greeks and his protege. The comedy here lies in their identical wardrobes: whither thou goest, I will go; where thou Iodgest, I will lodge; and what thou wearest, I will wear...
...gold medal of Britain's Royal Society of Arts. Will Gropius have time next month to attend the formal opening of the embassy in Athens? "No. I don't think I can make it. I'm too busy," says the old architect with just the trace of a smile...