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Scarcely a week after they overturned the Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens and seized power, the generals of Chile were acting rather like the colonels of Greece, or even like the cardboard military figures of a Costa-Gavras movie. They went methodically about eliminating traces of Allende's...
Yet this aeronautical engineer and specialist in communications satellites is not without his poetry. In Childhood's End (1953), the best of his nearly 20 novels and story collections, he pushed the theory of evolution toward a new creation myth, as humankind toddled−with some sadness and a...
Elsewhere Greene has pointed out what Charley Fortnum eventually demonstrates with his life, that the appropriate response to corruption is not cynicism but innocence. Not since The End of the Affair ("Dear God, you know I want your pain, but I don't want it now"), however, has Greene...
If the starlet did go inside to see the film, she would have found that Anderson the director reveals as much of his dour, sardonic Scots heritage as Anderson the man does. O Lucky Man!, now on view across the U.S. (TIME, June 18), presents the audience with visions of...
The Communists' success has been a long time in preparation. Ruthlessly suppressed after its founding in 1922, the party re-emerged after World War II with a commitment to peaceful democratic evolution. Thanks largely to this low-profile platform, it gained 35 seats in the 1949 elections. The Korean...