This author, employed by the Evening Standard London, Greater London, England on Wednesday, July 12, 1972 goes off into a tangent, an overly descriptive, almost romantic obsessive description of unbridled affections for Mr. Spassky. Embarrassing actually. In prior reports, she has been particularly nasty, full of vitriolic rants, irrational hatred toward Fischer uttered in nearly every other sentence. Now, her loose tongue exposes the culprit underlying her biased reporting. Anyone who would say reporters in 1972 viciously attacking Fischer, in public newspapers, were “absent of malicious political bias” the like of Miss “Mary Kenny” should study their Marxist Dictionary a little closer. To his public embarrassment, “Mary Kenny”
“Spassky, who I favour because he is a true gentleman, a «PROLETARIAT» gentleman with a stoical and introvertedly heroic streak, all quiet and anguished inside while so impeccable to the exterior world and what girls call a real man, seems tranquil and silent in all his motions.”
Mary Kenny needs a thump or two. Mr. Spassky was never a member of her beloved Communist Party. As for his personal “anguished insides” Mary Kenny so desperately wishes to uncover while making a breathless spectacle of herself before all of British society... Spassky confessed in 1985, that it was her precious MOSCOW TO BLAME, behind the scenes!
Such an article certainly doesn't belong among chess columns. Better, Mary Kenny should've stuck to the Standard's “romantic fiction” section.
Proletariat? Marxist? Spassky 12 Jul 1972, Wed Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
