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...Henry Kissinger and a special parking place in the State Department's basement. All that stopped with Reagan's Administration. Dobrynin now goes in the State Department's public entrance. And so cold are U.S.-Soviet relations that it matters less whether Dobrynin has the instant ear of the Politburo...
...from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word. The Ambassador from China watched in fascination. Max Kampelman, who was one of Hubert Humphrey's whiz kids from Minnesota, cocked his ear for each nuance. The Senator's daughter, Anna Marie Jackson, 21, wept...
...mention of Andrei Sakharov's name in French, Chernenko's hand went up to his ear and he looked puzzled. Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, who was seated next to French Transport Minister Charles Fiterman, one of four Communists in Mitterrand's Cabinet, uttered an audible sigh of impatience. When the Russian translation was read by the interpreter, a stir crossed the hall. But Chernenko did not even smile ironically, and 55 minutes later the banquet was over...
...anguish of that search lies the profundity of Rabe's work. The playwright is functioning here as far more than a realist with an unsurpassed ear for contemporary speech. What he is saying, finally, is that words have begun to fail. The vocabulary in which his people speak, a jargon derived from televised reductions of reality and popularized psychology, leaves them without the tools they need to know their own minds, let alone the complexities of their shared existence. The bitterest of the many laughs Rabe provides derives from his recognition that the relentless articulateness of his people...
Most importantly, we refused to reflect on an alternative for ordinary university students. Our message to them was to choose sides, to give up their reactionary fantasies of moving with the ruling class and to dedicate themselves full-time to the revolution. When we had the ear of hundreds of thousands of students across America and around the world, we convinced them that there was no way to combine a profession, a career and a family with a contribution to political change. They believed us and made an uneasy peace with the system. Sooner than we, they realized that they...