Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fading ocher-colored mansion sits like a ghost in the midst of Taipei's swirling traffic. The heavy wooden doors, surmounted by iron spikes, are sealed shut. Shards of broken glass protrude from the high, surrounding wall. The pole inside the compound that flew the U.S. flag for 63 years (first when the island was under Japanese domination, later under the Republic of China), with only wartime interruptions, does so no longer. Now a set of rough, unpainted boards nailed across the brass plaque on the gate obscures its legend: EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...reason to suppose that the same thing may not happen to their modern equivalents-the Rothkos and Newmans, the Warhols and Johnses, and even (blasphemous thought!) some of the Picassos. What goes up is quite able to come down. It only needs a little crack in the wall of confidence...
From the airless corridors of London to the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Smiley battles Karla as masters play chess by mail, visualizing the opponent, pondering alternatives, waiting agonizing days for the next move. And herein lie the novel's aggravating weaknesses. Readers have been here long, long ago. Smiley, the cerebral sleuth, may be as corpulent as Nero Wolfe, but in this adventure he is suddenly Sherlock Holmes redivivus. His obsessive enemy is a new version of Dr. Moriarty. The audience is Watson, condemned to wonder what the detective is up to when he examines those cigarettes...
...broadcast was denounced by House Speaker Tip O'Neill as "regrettable and dangerous," and Congressman Robert Bauman of Maryland said NBC deserved the "Benedict Arnold award for journalism." NBC Washington Correspondent Ford Rowan accused his employer of "irresponsible journalism" and resigned in protest. The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor questioned NBC's news judgment. CBS and ABC up braided NBC for violating a standard TV news canon against awarding terrorists an unedited platform for their views. "That is a right we don't even give the President of the United States," insisted CBS News...
...leader of East Germany's 1.2 million Roman Catholics; of a hemorrhage during treatment for cancer; in East Berlin. The son of a Berlin postal official, Bengsch was named bishop of the divided city and its environs in August 1961, three days after the erection of the Berlin Wall. A conservative theologian who steered clear of politics, he was given special permission by East German authorities to cross the Wall three days a month to minister to his West Berlin flock; later he was allowed 30 days in every three-month period. In 1967 Bengsch became the first East...