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Mole : Le Carré s Fiction Burrows Its Way Into the Real World

Dec. 17, 2020 6:28 pm ET Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. When the British spy novelist John le Carré died last Saturday, many obituaries noted how his gripping tales of Cold War espionage were informed by his own experiences in the U.K. intelligence agency MI5. His firsthand knowledge of spycraft provided verisimilitude for those bestselling works, beginning with “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” in 1963. That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth. But in fact, le Carré would often make up his own terms. As he revealed to a BBC interviewer in 1976, “I’ve used some authentic words, but I prefer my own really.” Those le Carré-isms include “scalphunter,” “honey-trap,” “lamplighter” and “pavement artist.”

Le Carré captured the human condition, in the Cold War and beyond

Le Carré captured the human condition, in the Cold War and beyond
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Pregnant Princess Eugenie makes festive appearance for charity close to her heart

The online carol concert also featured Dame Sian Phillips, star of I, Claudius, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Strike, reading a passage from St John’s Gospel, and the charity s patient choir Singing for Breathing, Fortis Voices and Harefield Primary School choir. All funds raised from the event will go towards supporting staff and patients at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Eugenie and Jack have been among the royal volunteers helping to deliver care packages to frontline workers throughout the pandemic this year. The couple also helped to pack boxes of food for the Salvation Army in May. Eugenie and Jack married in October 2018, and in September they shared the announcement that they are

The Blinding Clarity of John Le Carré

The Blinding Clarity of John Le Carré
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John le Carré s death reminded me of the time he saved me from the CIA

The first man I met from the CIA was small, wore an oblong blue suit, had a fine push-broom mustache, and leaned forward a little when he nodded. He looked as modest and worn as a character from a John le Carré novel, and I eventually imagined him as one. It was 2006, and I was in the ballroom of the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, the kind of room in the kind of building with the wood dressed up to look baronial and Gothic to contrast with the boisterous main drag of a large public university outside. Advertisement I had submitted my résumé to a general drop box weeks before for the job fair, a sprawling undergraduate cattle call with representatives from regional banks, hospitality companies, and a suite of federal government agencies.

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