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Moscow, of course, has many Chernobyl troubles in addition to the damage caused by the blast and radiation. It suffers from a serious credibility gap as a result of its lack of candor about the accident. Other nations have severely criticized the Soviets for first concealing the disaster from the world and then providing scant information. Many Soviet citizens are also resentful because they were not warned of the danger until more than a week after the accident. Residents of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 80 miles from the crippled reactor, took no safety precautions in the same period. Many...
...Soviets' lack of candor struck many observers as part of an ingrained national trait. Says Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "There is a traditional fear and concern within the Soviet Union about panic. After all, mass panic is what set off the revolutions in 1905 and 1917. The authorities have an inordinate fear of the masses running wild...
...three new Delta IV-class nuclear-powered submarines and of the Su-27 Flanker, an air-defense fighter deployed only this year. But overall, reviews of the book were lukewarm. While many U.S. military experts outside the Pentagon think SMP has improved in accuracy and candor with each new edition, they still regard it as less than totally objective. "It is a political document," says John Collins, the author of a respected 1985 study, U.S.-Soviet Military Balance. "The authors emphasize what...
Suffering has not ennobled the Ekdals. As played with ruthless candor by Richard Bauer, the father is a self-pitying drunk. His wife (Tana Hicken), prematurely gray and hardened, thinks only of money and business. Their daughter (Rebecca Ellens) is a fanciful child who has learned none of the % social graces. The self-proclaimed idealism of their friend Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers...
...made quite well enough. Some of its incidents seem unlikely, and its cheery ending is a rather facile reversal. But Furth creates convincing people: he gives them clever, well-wrought and wholly plausible dialogue; and he appreciates the timeless give-and-take of family life, its perilous candor and its resilience. The play evokes the temper and flavor of the years just after World War II, when economic change was the order of the day. The father went to work at a time when men could climb the corporate ladder on raw ability. Now nearing 40, he sees...