Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. Ever since Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), in this view, Le Carre has been unduly shifting emphasis from action to atmospherics; his espionage plots remained splendidly inventive, but they arrived splintered into ambiguities worthy of Henry James. Which was fine, maybe, for those who wanted their cold war shenanigans decked out in the trappings of The Golden Bowl. But what was wrong with the heart-stopping pace of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)? And will it ever come again...
...Barley passes muster with the British crew and later with the more suspicious contingent from the CIA, but not before protesting, "I thought the Cold War was supposed to be over." Back in the Soviet Union, seeking out the woman who had forwarded the presumptive secrets and trying to get at their source, he encounters glasnost and perestroika everywhere he turns. One Moscow literary type wonders, "When will they start repressing us again to make us comfortable?" Another informs him, "We have no more problems! In the old days we had to assume that everything was a mess...
Some Sweetwater residents are wary of the newcomers. "A lot of people still go back to World War II," explains Otha McGaughey, who left her job at a local restaurant to work as T.M.G.'s food-service manager. But most seem open to learning about another culture. Says hosiery-mill owner Jackson Jones: "Both sides are trying hard to put their best foot forward...
...feel personally sorrowful about black-white relations a lot of the time because black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war, to prevent other kinds of real conflagrations...
Three hundred years -- think about that. Now, that's not a war, that's generation after generation. And they were expendable. True, they had the status of good horses, and nobody wanted to kill their stock. And, of course, they had the advantage of reproducing without cost...