Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crying at the Bier. Throughout the three speeches, Khrushchev revealed himself as a man still trying to squeeze free from his own complicity in Stalin's crimes, while well aware that he had gone too far in his sensational, weepy indictment of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress. What...
The Reprieve. Graham and his team left their mark on celebrities as well as on New York's anonymous multitudes. Box 31 at the Garden was held by crusade headquarters for visiting VIPs, and the Garden management itself reserved two boxes every night. Such disparate personalities as Perle ("Hostess...
The dude reader will be wrong. Dorothy Johnson pays her respects to the strict conventions of western fiction (by now as stylized as a Flathead bluejay dance), but the best of these ten tales of a lost frontier echo Bret Harte or Mark Twain in the West. There is the...
As reconstructed by Newby, onetime English Lit. teacher at Cairo's Fouad I University, Egypt's revolution was merely preposterous. Its romantic absurdity is represented by one Lieut. Mahmoud Yehia, an idealistic young hero of the Palestine war who wants first of all to see his wicked king...
Fine Style. The wicked, 1,000-mile route that winds south from Brescia along the Adriatic littoral and then curls north across the Apennines was used by Benito Mussolini as a monument to Benito Mussolini. Having made his trains run on time, the Duce was determined to prove the quality...