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Leamas has killed many a time. He has just seen his entire network of East German informers systematically rubbed out by a Communist espionage team directed by a monster named Mundt. Then, back in London, Headquarters asks him to join an elaborate plot that he believes is aimed at killing Mundt...
However, I am confident the University and our campus community will come to realize what a meritorious group the AAAAS is, provided they stopped looking at us with a jaundiced eye, and stopped turning everything we do or say from side to side in order to discover the monster which we must have concealed somewhere. It is true that usually one can find what one wants to believe if one searches long enough...
...difference is that the fanatic in power soon proves to be a monster; the fanatic who has lost his power sometimes assumes an aura of gallantry. Biographer Isaac Deutscher seems especially susceptible to this gallantry. An ex-Trotskyite and a respected writer on Communism, Deutscher has turned out an exciting, exacting biography that is very likely definitive, but he cannot prevent a touch of hero worship from creeping into his prose. Trotsky, Deutscher says, "strove to rally his fighters to the most impossible of causes. He sought to set them against every power in the world: against fascism, bourgeois democracy...
...Mules have butchered their first three opponents this season with monster scores like 69-26 (Westchester), 65-30 (Lehigh), and 71-24 (Williams). Like Navy, they have the best team in their history. And Harvard faces them at 8 p.m. tonight in the I.A.B...
...Steegmuller is never certain whether, as a man, Apollinaire is some kind of contorted hero or merely a monster of genius. The lapse is not surprising. Apollinaire's friends weren't sure either. Marie Laurencin, the painter with whom he lived for four years, has left history little more searching commentary than the fact that Apollinaire insisted they make love in a chair because he couldn't bear to have his bed rumpled...