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...uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism." Since then, and particularly over the past two decades, TIME has reported at great length on the activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that...
This week's project was directed, as were TIME's previous excerpts from books by Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig, Theodore H. White and Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. "Before we choose a book to excerpt," says Kriss, "we always ask: Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic...
Toward the end of the book, Bonner says of the isolation in Gorky: "From there you can't call out, you can't shout loud enough to be heard." The following excerpt shows that, given a voice of sufficient strength and conviction, yes, you can call out, you can indeed be heard...
Rosovsky read aloud an excerpt from the editorial that said, "The 'presence of distinguished alumni and affiliates in the houses,' so pompously promoted for the 350th, is supposed to be an everyday occurrence. The fact that it takes a very special occasion indeed to bring Henry Rosovsky to Mather House offers an honest but ironic commentary on the distance between undergraduates and Harvard's elder elite...
Banks puts another text to good use: an excerpt from Beckett's Rockabye--"Time she stopped. Time stopped..."--signals the end of the play. Both additions contribute intriguingly non-sensical asides to the production. Even better are the photography and films that appear on the screen throughout the work; they are often mesmerizing and pleasantly distracting...