Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary season next March. Prefacing everything by saying, "If I become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with the intellectuals myself"), and in discussing the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, Nixon sounded as if he had employed Dean Rusk's speechwriter. "But," said Nixon, "never...
...House of Representatives would give the board new powers to investigate subversives, but the Senate voted to keep it substantially as it is, with one proviso: if the Attorney General does not refer any cases to it, it will go out of existence in January 1969. Whatever version emerges, it appears certain that, barring an unexpected presidential veto, SACB will live...
...closeups. Required to brush up the fading color on the original print frame by frame, studio technicians have done their job well, although there is still occasional blurring. Composer Max Steiner's original magnolia-lush score, however, sounds better than ever in a re-engineered six-channel stereo version...
...Bible story! After more than a quarter of a century of suppression, The Master and Margarita, by Soviet Novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, has surfaced as a magazine serial in Russia, and in two translations in the U.S. The full text is published by Harper & Row, and the cut-down Russian version by Grove Press. Doubtless the U.S. publishers are right in claiming that the novel is "the most talked-about literary work in Russia today." Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality." The work can now be seen for what...
...erotic literature. We are not publishing a string of sexual scenes for the sake of titillation." For what other purpose then? Says Geis: "There is a perfectly legitimate public curiosity about what goes on behind the scenes." Not that people really find out what goes on in the Geis version of the roman è clef. The formula does not require that the novel be based even loosely on truth or, for that matter, on gossip...