Word: doublecrossing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gives a fascinating account of Jaffe's precise planning to burrow underground into a jewelry store at night, and his businesslike recruitment of personnel for the job. With very little dialogue, it pictures the jewel theft in a long, intimately detailed sequence of torturing suspense. Then a doublecross explodes the mastermind's plan...
...Vast Doublecross. Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's most serious attack on the modern superstate, but he had made others. In 1946 had come Animal Farm, a merciless satire on the Soviet regime that was as enlightening as it was hilarious, as persuasive as it was just. Even now, with reams of confessions by disillusioned revolutionists in the record, Animal Farm (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946) remains the best manual on the doublecross of Stalinism...