Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Since the publication this fall of a translation of Humanisme et Terreur, a book scarcely available till now even in French, we are better able to locate the sharp edge of Merleau-Ponty's perception. The immediate object evoking his response was Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon . This account of the Moscow trials of the 1930's. presented as fiction, appeared in 1946. Along with his argumentation in The Yogi and the Commissar. Koestler's novel was taken as the expression, and for some, the justification of disillusion and inwardness, a mood then pervasive among Western intellectuals...
...untimely opposition to Stalin, he was no better than a traitor. At the same time, he tried to deny with all the irony and passion still left to him that he was in fact in the service of a foreign country. That this denial was in Merleau-Ponty's account, so difficult to make, is a measure of the desperation of the old Bolsheviks facing Stalin's attack. Their intentions, they believed, had joined them to the enemies of the Revolution, and it must have seemed that to say aloud that their intention was not that at all, would...
...Committee with the whole issue of recordings before them, and get a carefully worked out procedure rather than improvising something here. Anything we worked out here would be improvised, and I suspect that both parties would at some point come to regret it, because it wouldn't take into account everyone's interests. My proposal is that we reschedule the hearings for a mutually convenient time that can be found and in the interim we get instructions from the full Committee as to the use of student tape recorders...
...following account of Margolin's hearing is necessarily incomplete, both because of the limited space and because of the impossibility of transcribing longhand an hour-long hearing. But it is as accurate and fair as is possible for me to produce...
...Carven Parfums' Ma Griffe have been published in half a dozen magazines. The first newspaper ads using the process will appear this month. Because of extra production costs, a micro-fragrance ad often doubles the ordinary price for advertising. Still, Reach McClinton's Robert Jaffe, an account executive for Ma Griffe perfume, which ran a micro-fragrance ad in four women's magazines, maintains that the impact makes the high cost worthwhile. "You are putting before the consumer what you're selling," he says, "and what we are selling is smell...