Posts on 06/19/18
"The Plot to Kill Stalin": Playhouse 90, 1958
(Edward Jajko, USA, 06/19/18 4:32 pm) On September 25, 1958, the CBS TV network telecast an episode of the often-distinguished dramatic series Playhouse 90, entitled "The Plot to Kill Stalin." I can still recall ...
Read more"The Death of Stalin": Thumbs Down
(Cameron Sawyer, Russia, 06/19/18 4:10 pm) I, on the other hand, did not enjoy The Death of Stalin. Certainly the subject is worth making a movie about, but I don't think Iannucci's effort remotely does justice to th ...
Read moreHow Independent was the US Peace Corps in the 1960s?
(Richard Hancock, USA, 06/19/18 5:32 am) On June 14th, John E asked about CIA meddling in the early days of the US Peace Corps. During the two years that I was Peace Corps Director in El Salvador, I was totally independent and ran the ...
Read moreI Grew Up Poor
(Istvan Simon, USA, 06/19/18 4:59 am) Though there is undoubtedly some truth in the claims of generational preservation of wealth (see John Heelan, 12 June), one should not put too much into these poorly formulated theories. Take ...
Read more"The Death of Stalin": More Groucho than Karl
(Paul Levine, Denmark, 06/19/18 4:31 am) We too enjoyed The Death off Stalin. Marx famously said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In his film, Armando Iannucci does precisely this, turning Stalin&# ...
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