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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of British intelligence operations in Washington for more than two years, Philby was often called upon for advice by the CIA, which was being set up to replace the wartime Office of Strategic Services. Philby especially hated the success of U.S. capitalism, and he happily told the Russians about the CIA's projects and organization. Along the way, he received regular briefings on U.S. intelligence operations from CIA Chief Walter Bedell Smith and knew every counterintelligence move that the CIA made. When he was final ly dismissed from M.I. 6, it was only at the insistent demand...
...imagined." The Snake Is Out, for example, coils for 24 ft. along the ground in back of Lincoln Center, bulging in its black skin like some prehistoric reptile. It propels the viewer to circle it and savor its tetrahedrons and octahedrons swelling and flowing. Yet the title, piling allegory upon allusion, comes from John McNulty's Third Avenue Medicine: "The snake is an ordinary little vein . . . that runs along the left temple of a man's head"-and distends when he is drunk...
...pass out before I get going." Friends' trials move him deeply. In addition, since a 1961 auto crackup, he has developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments-and alcohol. He consumes at least half a bottle of Old Crow or vodka...
...still nine years before Nat revolts, nine years in which to feed on the vengeful rantings of Old Testament prophets and to mature a "disbelief which verged close upon madness, then a sense of betrayal, then fury such as I had never known before, then, finally, hatred so bitter that I grew dizzy." The hatred is directed against Samuel Turner, the man who invited him to dream...
...members at a meeting held then failed to approve one of five points of policy about the planning implications of a tenth Harvard House which the HPC had itself approved in an earlier vote. The HPC had called upon the new subcommittee not to consider the option of expanding the size of Harvard College classes when Mather opened; HUC members favored a resolution asking the sub-committee to discuss the option of increasing class size to fill the House only in the larger context of educational policy and the philosophy of the House system...