Duranty
Americannoun
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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, whom Stalin favored with direct access, insisted there was no famine in the U.S.S.R.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
British journalist Walter Duranty had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his stories on the supposed success of collectivization and other Soviet policies.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022
What I liked about Duranty is that he's painted as a villain in the piece in history, but we also realize he has family, and his life is there.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2020
The most important and mysterious of these is Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow bureau chief and a Stalin apologist, played with cool, silky menace by Peter Sarsgaard.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020
In an admirable picture, Hommage � Manet, the delicate and perfect painter Fantin-Latour, a friend from the first hour, has grouped around the artist some of his admirers, Monet, Renoir, Duranty, Zola, Bazille, and Braquemond.
From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Mauclair, Camille
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