Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are, however, important and auspicious differences between 1848 and 1989. In 1848 multinational empires dominated Europe. The revolutionaries wanted to dismember them, but could not agree on where the new boundaries should be drawn. Such questions as how far Germany should extend and whether there should be an independent...
These and other episodes are presented out of order because, writes Sinyavsky, "the past cannot be grasped in sequence." Realism, too, is all thumbs. In order to re-create the bizarre atmosphere of his KGB interrogation, the author restages the experience as a one-act farce. Karl could have been...
The 51 were the first installment of what Britain has announced will be a mass forced repatriation of Vietnamese boat people. Those who are to be expelled from the crown colony -- the number could exceed 40,000 -- fail to qualify as political refugees (as opposed to economic migrants) and are...
Mandela's prison dialogue with the government on one side and antiapartheid forces on the other is making him ever more indispensable in efforts to bridge the gap between the country's 5 million whites and 26 million blacks. "He is the man who can create a basis upon which...
There have probably been moments, like the one last week, when Gorbachev had second thoughts about the telephone call he made to the city of Gorky in 1986, informing Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner that they could return to Moscow after seven years of political exile. Like the prophets...