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Mimi and her debutante friends should be locked in a time capsule and sent to a distant planet. Let the whole universe know why there was a budget deficit...
These simple abstractions have a meaning for Cambodian children that is clearly disturbing to them. It is not as if the Khmer Rouge are an invading horde from a distant nation; the Khmer Rouge are their neighbors, their friends, themselves-which may account for the fact that so many of the children have nightmares in which they assume the roles of Pol Pot's soldiers. They have, in fact, known children who were Pol Pot's soldiers. The atrocities of the Khmer Rouge are thus acutely shocking. No, they say; the good spirit and the bad spirit cannot...
...that he thinks of such things now, of course. Pham has never heard of the I.R.A. or P.L.O. or Israel or Lebanon. The name Ireland has no meaning to him, nor Poland, nor any other distant place except America, which has no particularly clear image for him either, other than that country where it is said one may be happy. His immediate wishes are sufficient; to get a bit more sleep, and to rid himself of the nightmare that the boatmaster will break out of jail and once again go for his head. Whatever else he thinks he does...
After Tolstoy, Nabokov serves up a pleasant dessert of Chekhov. Chekhov occupies a distant but secure third place in the official ranking. He is neither poetic nor playful, but his wisdom and good taste capture Nabokov's heart. The survey ends with a small but appetite-killing dose of Gorki. Except for a couple of untranslatable modernists (Blok and Bely), Nabokov says, the future of Russian literature lies with the expatriates...
...their ancestors, plundered by scientists and amateur collectors, and reburied them in sacred soil. But for many California scientists, especially archaeologists and anthropologists, the ceremony had a different meaning: it was the latest episode in a continuing battle over the right of researchers to study America's distant past...