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...Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills, though, but rather to sharpen the reader's awareness that injury and cruelly are facts of life...
...professional policeman. Until his political appointment to the KGB in 1967, Andropov's career had been in government or party service. The son of a railway worker, he was born in 1914 in the village of Nagutskoye in the northern Caucasus. At times a telegraph operator and boatman on the Volga River, Andropov began his political career at 22, when he became an organizer for the Young Communist League. After serving as a political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II, he worked in a series of party jobs, gradually gaining a reputation as an expert on Eastern...
...daughter Irina is married to Actor Alexander Filipov, who has performed in a number of avant-garde productions at Moscow's Taganka Theater. It is through Filipov that Russian artists and theater people have sometimes caught a glimpse of the unofficial Andropov. At theater parties, the former Volga boatman likes to join in hearty renditions of Russian songs. Andropov also has a dry sense of humor. One Moscow actor who chanced to be seated across a dinner table from Andropov related how the then secret-police chief reached across, the table to offer him a glass of cognac. When...
...railway worker from the northern Caucasus, Andropov was a telegraph operator and Volga boatman before he joined the Young Communist League. He served as political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II and eventually joined the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, rising rapidly to the rank of ambassador. While Ambassador to Budapest in 1956, he helped supervise the brutal Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. Though not previously a professional secret policeman, Andropov was named top cop of the Soviet Union in 1967. He quickly became known for the efficiency with which he repressed all forms of political, religious...
...graves has yielded a coin that totally baffles the archaeologists; it could be evidence of a semi-mythical Indo-Parthian kingdom thought to have existed in the area. Another of the skeletons shows strong Greek religious influence. Stuck between the teeth is a coin, symbolic payment to the boatman who ferries the dead across the River Styx to the Underworld...