Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloody Circle. Few in Russia now dare to publicly support the beleaguered writer, as hundreds have done in the past. Only a dozen brave men could be found to speak up for him in Russia. Among these was Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. With a courage commensurate to Solzhenitsyn's, the physicist told a Swiss journalist that "the spiritual and moral impact of the facts revealed in Gulag will be enormous. Only by becoming conscious of the crimes perpetrated in the recent past can we hope to get out of this bloody circle...
...best that the paper can offer on Watergate is a hearsay account of the forthcoming book by Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; the headline is ominous ("Another time bomb ticking away under the White House"), but the text offers no dynamite ("Insiders hint that Bernstein and Woodward make no new startling disclosures in their book...
...surprise is that French Novelist (The Day of the Dolphin) Robert Merle's premise should yield such an entertaining and cheerful novel. Anyone who has read Herman Kahn, with his printouts of megadeaths, or the other prophets who have envisioned post-Bomb races of savage mutants hotfooting it across the radioactive countryside, might have concluded that nuclear holocaust is not much...
...providentially handy Geiger counter assures Merle's survivors that the doomsday Bomb was at least a "clean" one. Some livestock have survived, along with a supply of gram, guns, the wine cellar and Comte's collection of shirts, which sounds as opulent as Jay Gatsby's. Malevil's tribe establishes a sort of feudal agrarian Communism. The band soon discovers that a scattering of other people near by have also survived the holocaust, among them some young women, who conveniently become Malevil's communal wives and future breeding stock. A band of loot ers begins...
Like Ehninger, most of the other male characters in the book are pallid. It is the women who are vivid and demonstrate by far the sharpest appetites. Beeky's wife, for example, is a ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington...