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Canadian Author Margaret Atwood's sixth novel will remind most readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That can hardly be helped. Any new fictional account of how things might go horribly wrong risks comparisons either with George Orwell's classic or with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To a remarkable degree, these two books have staked out the turf of contemporary antiutopias. Which punishment is it to be this time? Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology? As it turns out, Atwood's look at the future takes place under conditions that Orwell would recognize. Repression...
...Handmaid's Tale will be taken in some quarters as a feminist parable or rallying cry. What is Offred, after all, if not an embodiment of woman subjugated to the power of men? In truth, Atwood's vision is considerably more complex than that. For the Republic of Gilead has come about, in part, with the help of women. Offred's memories of childhood include the time that her mother, an ardent feminist, took her to a ceremonial burning of pornographic magazines...
...March, tired, sick, a bit frightened and almost broke. The town literally rolled out a red carpet for them, but many Alaskans were openly skeptical of the group's prospects. "I'll give you three months!" one man shouted, which led Editor Bob Atwood to note in the Anchorage Times that "many of today's skeptics received the same reception when they arrived...
...detractors, who are frustrated by his ability to separate himself from his Administration's failures. Perhaps wishfully, they maintain that Teflon Presidents do not come equipped with Velcro coattails. "Our polls reflect that Reagan's personal popularity is not transferable to Senate Republican candidates," says J. Brian Atwood, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "They have had to support Reagan's policies, which are nowhere near as popular...
...Jerome Atwood Los Gatos, Calif...