Word: victor
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...archaeology," says Beck, ";in which familiar and noteworthy quotations reveal . . . the nature of the age and the people who created them." If so, the 15th edition, with its chorus of sayings by Neil Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, R.D. Laing, Mick Jagger and the rest of the tribe, reminds one of Victor Hugo's platitude about an idea whose time has come, a quotation that Beck calmly assures us Hugo never said. Bartlett would have been proud...
...BEEN born 25 years earlier, Victor S. Navasky, editor of The Nation and author of Naming Names, a "moral detective story" into congressional investigations of Hollywood in the 1950s, would certainly have been a victim of the McCarthy era blacklists. His liberal credentials as a former editor of The New York Times and author of Kennedy Justice place him squarely in the "effete," "pinko" intellectual establishment that bore the brunt of McCarthy's character assassinations. Navasky knows this, and there is a bitter urgency about his reexamination of the '50s, whether he is writing persuasively in Naming Names or speaking...
...last week's Princeton-Yale upset, the Crimson women harriers travelled to Van Cortland Park, N.Y., Friday all set to take home the Ivy Championship crown. For one sweet hour they thought they had it, too, until a miscount was discovered and Princeton emerged the victor by a single point...
NAMING NAMES by Victor S. Navasky; Viking; 482 pages...
Three decades later, sifting through the ruins in a study he describes as "less a history than a moral detective story," Victor S. Navasky begins with a question for the informers and their ghosts: At what price-not only to their victims and themselves but to the country as a whole -did these singers sing...