Word: tyrant
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...Khrushchev's memoirs [May 6]: it was a very enlightening experience to look inside a man whom I had always thought of as a shoe-stomping tyrant and find that he was a very intelligent, concerned and compassionate individual. It is no wonder he was ousted: he was too human...
...pardon this aging genius his obscure symbology or warped sense of humor or ideological obsessions, because Tristana is a beautifully integrated masterpiece. An aging gentleman (Fernando Rey) exploits a young and nunnish dependent (Catherine Deneuve) until she snatches the dominating role away from him, becoming perhaps the crueler tyrant. The story threads lightly, revealing rather than obscuring the texture of snow-particles skitting across the granite of the church; the walled and narrow-streeted Spanish village; the suffering and scorn in Deneuve's bloodless face; the wrench of Catholicism. The surrealism here is not extraneous or forced-it arises...
...Blotner's chronicle. There was the country humorist whose quips kept strangers at bay. (After listening to Thornton Wilder eagerly discuss the meaning of the title Light in August, Faulkner replied: "You know I never thought of that. It just sounded pretty.") The loving father vies with the tyrant who once told his daughter Jill: "Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children." Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech rang with hope: "I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail." Yet at practically the same time, he was telling Estelle: "The human race stinks...
...sign of remaining just that for a long time to come. Aside from its one lucrative industry, diamond mining, the country's most striking feature is its ruler, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 53, a former sergeant in the French army who may be the continent's most brutal tyrant...
...Accolades to TIME for selecting Judge Sirica, who may eventually become Man of the 20th Century in helping rescue a desperate people from an equally desperate and dangerous tyrant...