Word: con
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
...have won, we have lost," they say sadly, thinking of their dead companions. "Only the farmers have won," an old man agrees. "They remain forever. They are like the land. You are like the wind ... a strong wind [chasing] the locusts . . . blowing over the land and passing on. Vayan con Dios." Technically, the film is up to big-studio standards. Color, camera work, acting and direction (John Sturges) are competent. But the script (William Roberts) is what gives this western its special dimensions of inwardness and dignity. Expert but sensitive, the writer searches even more intimately than Kurosawa did into...
...Sonata Opus 110 began auspiciously. Mr. Fischer's playing fulfilled two of Beethoven's three descriptions; it was cantabile (the melody line was beautifully brought out), it was con amabilita, yet it fell short of the molto expressive playing called for. Later the lyric and tranquil sections of the piece were handled with more feeling and fidelity to the manuscript. But the more declamatory passages suffered from excessive percussiveness, which often resulted in the submerging of the melody. Indeed, the entire first part of Mr. Fischer's recital displayed his lack of the tremendous ability required to meet the frequent...
...meeting dragged on, European Communists began busily to plant abroad the notion that Khrushchev had persuaded the majority to stick with peaceful coexistence for the next months while he sizes up the policies of President-elect John Kennedy. This had all the earmarks of a calculated leak designed to con the West into accepting Khrushchev as its favorite Communist. So did the report that Chairman Liu had boasted that his country now has four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China...
...Away Bird, by Muriel Spark. In the title novella and in ten accompanying short stories-mostly semi-supernatural suspense tales-the talented Scottish novelist displays her deft style and consummate con-woman skill in unmasking the hoaxing face of the world...