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...Kremlin's haste to rewrite Soviet history, another seamy little sequence in the Communist past turned up like a bug under a mattress: a belated charge that Stalin practiced and tolerated antiSemitism. Khrushchev, in his virtuoso weep session, had told party leaders about Stalin's fanatical hatred of Jews in his last days, but so far no public mention had been made of the purge of Jewish intellectuals in the '30s, and the later postwar purge, coinciding with the establishment of Israel, and supposedly due to fear of Zionist influence in Russia and the satellite states...
...inversion of the lines of Edna Wheeler Wilcbx, the female Edgar Guest of the late 1800s: "Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone...
...concrete. This is the story of Lovejoy Mason, a ten-year-old asphalt sparrow, and her dream. A co-selection of the Book- of-the-Month Club for December, An Episode of Sparrows may well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over the printed page. Far from the Indian scenes on which she founded her literary fame (Black Narcissus, The River), Author Godden here tries her deft writing hand at landscaping a child's heart, letting the teardrops fall where they...
...fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...
...more than one man. A Jaunswar girl who admitted to two husbands quickly added, "But I live with only one. The other is now living with my sister." Jaunswar mothers who have been sending their children out of Jaunswar Bawar for modern schooling have been pained to see them weep when the plains children jeer: "How many fathers have...