Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will seek a divorce. Their mother is shocked at the notion: "Divorce! You are too young to utter the word, and there is no reason why you should, for you know nothing about it. You have never known anybody who was divorced. I don't think I ever have, except of course Cosima Wagner." The scene shifts, in a downwardly mobile fashion, to a Thamesside public house and inn, run by friends of the Aubreys'. Rose stumbles into a Saturday-night ruckus in the bar: "All the customers were standing quite still and nobody was saying anything. Their faces were...
...Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory, in which the author, having fled the Soviet revolution, discusses the "bestial terror that had been sanctioned by Lenin --the torture- house, the blood-bespattered wall." Reed saw what he wished to see, Nabokov what he saw. One assumes that Gorbachev is no Lenin, except perhaps in intellectual bent, but the problem of perception remains. Today one takes a position between Reed and Nabokov, between the desire for optimism and the knowledge of a brutal regime...
...fears that Gorbachev, like Andropov, was being oversold in parts of the West as a man of "liberal" views who would take radical measures to revamp the Soviet system and open doors to the outside world. In fact, very little was known in the West about Gorbachev until recently, except that he was a Moscow State University-trained lawyer and an agronomist, and a man of remarkable political staying power. Then, last December in Britain, Gorbachev and his wife created a stir with their unproletarian style--the London penny press called them the Gucci Comrades. Within days a Soviet media...
...Except the Bulldogs...
...need for reasonable regulations regarding commercial and academic research on nerve gas will remain long after the ADL question is settled. In fact, these highly toxic substances are currently unregulated by any local, state, or federal public safety statutes except by Department of Defense standards. In the absence of reliable regulations, it is no wonder that Cambridge residents are wary about ADL's nerve gas testing. ADL's should need public sentiment which indicates that nerve gas is not something Cambridge wants next door...