Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the big wood door at the side of the U.N. Security Council chamber to launch the Russian offensive in the biggest propaganda forum of them all. At 59, Chief Soviet Delegate Zorin had done hatchet jobs before. Zorin was the Ambassador to Czechoslovakia who helped organize the Soviet plot that converted the Czechs' wobbly democracy into an armed dictatorship and that very possibly helped Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk "fall" to his death in the courtyard of the Czech Foreign Ministry. He has served as Ambassador to Bonn, more recently stonewalled the West in the interminable disarmament talks...
Region of the Mind. This being the kind of novel that can no more be spoiled by the reader's knowing the plot than can King Lear or Goldilocks, it may be stated that Querry is killed by Marie's husband in vengeance for an imagined sexual wrong, and the journalistic saint becomes a fallen angel. As an ironic footnote, he is buried under a misattributed quote. Parkinson sends a wreath inscribed with a line supposedly from Robert Browning ("Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art"). It is really from Walter Savage Landor, but Querry, ambiguous martyr...
...films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...
...concrete corridor leading into a small chamber that can be filled in two seconds with enough gas to knock a man unconscious. The exit from the chamber opens directly into the prison's inner yard, where rows of iron grey dormitories and brick administrative buildings line a large rectangular plot surrounded by a fifteen foot stone wall...
...plot synopsis of The Section Man is somewhat difficult: it contains one hundred and twenty-four major characters; it is told from fifty-seven points of view; the narrative voice is sometimes internal and subconscious, sometimes omniscient; time shifts from the present to the future to the prehistoric past in intricate patterns. (According to the dust jacket, Mr. Queensly is already at work on his second book--A Key to The Section Man. It will include a glossary of terms from the fourteen languages which Mr. Queensly employs...