Encounter

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Encounter

MAGAZINE

Anti-Communist monthly, published October 1953 until September 1990. A scandal erupted after it was revealed that the magazine was largely funded by the CIA (and to a lesser extent, the British Foreign Ministry).

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Nigel Dennis Novelist 16-Jan-1912 19-Jul-1989 Cards of Identity

Frank Kermode Critic 29-Nov-1919 17-Aug-2010 The Sense of an Ending

Irving Kristol Columnist 22-Jan-1920 18-Sep-2009 Influential neocon

Melvin J. Lasky Journalist 15-Jan-1920 19-May-2004 Editor of journal Encounter

Stephen Spender Poet 28-Feb-1909 16-Jul-1995 The Destructive Element

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