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Communist Zeroes--When asked whether a Gorbachev visit to Harvard was feasible, Goldman held to his standard skeptical line...
Communist Heroes?--When asked about reports that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had been asked to speak at Harvard's June Commencement Exercises, Russian Research Center Associate Director Marshall L. Goldman confirmed that indeed Gorbachev's name had been tossed around as a possibility. So, he added, had the name of Deng Xiaoping...
...Middlebury College. "What will epitomize the 1990s is, Pay now." This involves not just all the credit-card loans or the interest on the leveraged buyouts but also a lot of ignored problems. "Domestically, we have bulldozed so many things into the future," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, "that now we are going to have to deal with them." For example...
...second scenario of Soviet catastrophe is a coup from the Soviet "right" engineered by the army, perhaps in conjunction with the KGB. Though many top Soviets -- including Yeltsin -- dismiss this scenario, Central Committee members voiced fears of a coup to Marshall Goldman, a leading American Sovietologist, last summer. The coup menace is exacerbated by the growing strength of Russian ultra-nationalist organizations. Extremist groups like Pamyat have targeted Jews (a paranoid Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory), "intellectuals" and "Russophobes" as scapegoats for national decline. The nationalists are at heart anti-Communist, but their appeal overlaps with a growing blue-collar nostalgia...
...differences in communication between characters are perhaps best represented by the role of Willy's wife Linda (Patricia Goldman). Goldman excellently portrays the confused wife whose final words at her husband's grave are "I don't understand," but she also gives an excellent performance as an angry mother whose sons have lost touch with their troubled father...