Word: unwittingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ONLY FADE AWAY, by Bruce Marshall (303 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), shows how an Episcopal Scotsman can hopscotch his engaging way through a comic novel as if he were the hero of a minor Greek tragedy. The hero is Strang Nairne Methuen. As a young lieutenant, he is full of...
Moral or Mental. Far from being biased, said Ervin, he "gave Senator McCarthy the benefit of all doubts, both reasonable and unreasonable." Then Ervin moved to another subject: the McCarthy speech (released to the press but never delivered on the Senate floor) calling the Watkins committee the "unwitting handmaiden" of...
Next day, McCarthy gave the press a speech which he planned (he said) to make to the Senate the following day. It was the usual attempt to equate anti-McCarthyism with pro-Communism-but this was the first time McCarthy had tried that line on such recognized conservatives as the...
In "Knock on Wood," Kaye plays an American ventriloquist who, while touring Europe, becomes the unwitting carrier of a set of horrendously important atomic blueprints. Since not only the original owners of these plans (Our Side), but also two competing sets of Middle European badmen are after the documents, Kaye...
Like its opposite number in Manhattan, London's Communist Daily Worker regularly passes the hat among faithful party members to keep the paper from going under. Last week, after warning again of the paper's dire financial straits, the Worker's appeal struck a note of unwitting...