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In the heady early days of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, two young Southern liberals came together in Washington and discovered the first bond of friendship. One went on to carve out a brilliant career in politics; the other rose to the top of the legal profession and successfully argued...
Out of the Cold. After The Spy Who Came In from the Cold lifted Le Carré to the rank of writers liberated from considerations of market, Le Carré admitted that his real name was David Cornwell, his real profession the British Foreign Service, and came out of the...
Le Carré spins out his story with impressive skill. It is not as good a spy story as Spy, which kept the reader guessing to the end as a good espionage story should. In Looking Glass, the author is graduating from his genre, as he promised he would. Having...
Szigeti's reason for choosing the violin as his vessel is "the irrational pleasure that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the...
Resigned to the perpetuity of the old profession, West German authorities see in the hostels the opportunity they have been waiting for to get whores back, indoors. "The prostitute problem is solved in Düsseldorf," says the city's police chief happily, and police in other cities are...