ENCOUNTER

Encounter

Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published in the United Kingdom, it was a largely Anglo-American intellectual and cultural journal, originally associated with the anti-Stalinist left. The magazine received covert funding from the Central Intelligence Agency, after the CIA and MI6 discussed the founding of an "Anglo-American left-of-centre publication" intended to counter the idea of cold war neutralism. The magazine was rarely critical of American foreign policy, but beyond this editors had considerable publishing freedom.

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encounter

Noun

  1. An unplanned or unexpected meeting.
    Their encounter was a matter of chance
  2. A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.
  3. A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants.
  4. A match between two opposing sides.

Verb

  1. To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.
  2. To confront (someone or something) face to face.
  3. To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
    Three armies encountered at Waterloo.


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