Word: friends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't there. Muttered Candidate Hubert Humphrey: "It's frustrating as hell to keep hearing, 'We're with you, Hubert, as long as Adlai isn't in.' Always provisional, always conditional." Said California's Pat Brown to a friend: "It's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen in politics. A man is beaten twice, says repeatedly he doesn't want to run, and he still has enough hold on the people to make them wait...
...Swedish Academy dug way down in the literary barrel for this year's Nobel Prizewinner in literature: Sicilian-born Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, onetime Communist and longtime friend of Red causes, a versifier whose intricate Italian style and deeply personal themes make him incomprehensible to most Italians. Quipped one Italian writer, mystified...
...honors at Paris' first biennial (for painters under 35): the Prix Braun for the best "painter in oils" and a six months' scholarship for study in Paris. Manabu Mabe, a Japanese-born farm hand who had sold only one painting in his life (for $12 to a friend), found himself with a sellout show in Rio de Janeiro; dealers from Caracas, Paris, New York and Rome were plying him with offers...
...Traveler Haakon Chevalier, at the time Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, sounded out three Los Alamos scientists with a view to transmitting atomic information to Russia. Later, Oppenheimer dubbed this testimony "a cock-and-bull story." His revised version: Chevalier was approached by a mutual friend and Soviet sympathizer, reported the matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion was treasonable (this exchange, Chevalier later said, took place in the pantry of Oppenheimer's house while the scientist was mixing martinis). To this day there is no conclusive evidence as to which...
...Sellout. In the novel, Mark innocently relays a story that U.S. security agents have concocted with the deliberate purpose of trapping Physicist Bloch in a lapse of loyalty. But the question of why Sebastian indicts his friend with a damaging yarn of his own is only glancingly answered. Chevalier hints that merely working on the A-bomb has corrupted Sebastian's moral sense. Another suggestion is that he has "sold out" to a nebulous power elite and forgotten the "little people." This charge reduces itself to guilt by dissociation: Bloch's crime is not so much libeling...