Word: unearthed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remembering that Richard M. Nixon was one of the men who helped unearth the data in the Alger Hiss matter reminded me very much of my high-school days when we read Cicero's Orations in Latin, and how Cicero castigated Catiline for electing to betray Rome rather than use his talents to further the Roman State. The same is so aptly true about these two men. Another interesting angle is that both of them are of the Society of Friends ... It would seem that of the two, Hiss had by far the greater advantages in influence and training...
...Novels Grow. It was 1889 before anyone bothered to unearth the MS. from the library of Grenoble (Stendhal's birthplace) and transcribe the muddled pages of handwriting. The result, now translated into English for the first time, has been praised by some critics as the masterpiece of Stendhal's career. "Nowhere as in Lamiel," says Poet Louis Aragon, "is the real world to be found in Stendhal...