Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...prewar Europe. Yet, for a few, the green fields were mined with sexual intrigue and high treason. For Cambridge was also a school for scandal. The most notorious Soviet spies were recruited there: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and, it turned out late last year, Sir Anthony Blunt, now deknighted and deposed as art adviser to the Queen. How, from this world of privilege, philosophy and vintage port, could the Soviets have enlisted such consummate traitors...
...considered themselves unloved." He adds: "It was the adultery of the soul that claimed most of their spare time." In this arrangement of the Cantabrigian quartet, Bryan Forbes, the English actor, director (The L-Shaped Room) and novelist, homes in onTheo Gittings, who bears a passing resemblance to Blunt. Theo, a brilliant, alienated invert who becomes a pillar of the literary establishment, is compared by critics to E.M. Forster (a fellow homosexual who issued the closet cri de coeur: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts...
...yielded few clues about the course that the superpower relationship might take. What the meeting did show is two things: 1) the Carter Administration's determination to deal sternly with Moscow so long as Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan and 2) Muskie's readiness to be a blunt spokesman for this position. In his address at the Austrian celebrations, with Gromyko sitting just a few feet from him, Muskie clearly alluded to the Afghanistan invasion as he said that "the principles of neutrality, of independence and territorial integrity so respected in the case of Austria are today being...
...actual advice, however, can be refreshingly blunt. Bill, 34, tells her that he has just quit a good job on impulse. Eager for disapproval, he asks Grant: "When will I grow up?" "Well," chuckles the psychologist, "that's a good question for all of us." She calls the hapless Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual...
...many essayist-reviewers, Pritchett never preens. His erudition is like old money, reassuringly there but tastefully in the background. His impulse is always to understand rather than attack; he often acknowledges the criticism of others so that he can temper it. He calls Edmund Wilson's plain, sometimes blunt style "democratic, in the sense that this distinguished man will not for long allow one phrase to be better than another." Evelyn Waugh is similarly pardoned: "To object to his snobbery is as futile as objecting to cricket, for every summer the damn game comes round again whether you like...