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...These are grim times for socialism, when we find that these countries have abandoned it," Doares continues. "But there are good and bad times for everything...
...After a grim childhood and some harsh early jobs, a young servant named Mary Reilly finds employment in a comfortable London house. Mary's literacy -- unusual among 19th century domestics -- enables her to keep a diary. In it she jots down the details of her work and notes the kind attentions of her master, a gentle, reclusive physician who spends a lot of time in his laboratory. Her narrative is well under way before she happens to drop his name, which is, of course, Dr. Jekyll...
...through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there, the ins and outs of selling jewelry or newspaper ads or working military codes -- whatever the father encountered, the daughter has made...
...been scarcely capable of using their weapons. For many years it concentrated on marksmanship and gun safety. Fending off gun control did not become an important N.R.A. concern until the 1930s, when Congress passed a law restricting sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Then came the 1960s and the grim wave of political assassinations. In the grief and anger that followed the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act of 1968, which banned interstate and mail-order shipment of firearms and ammunition and permitted federal inspection of gun dealers...
...Saturday evening a grim-faced President Mikhail Gorbachev appeared on nationwide TV to defend the crackdown. Noting that two years of negotiations to resolve the conflict between the Azerbaijanis and Armenians had failed, he said flatly, "This had to stop." Yet many Soviets wondered why Gorbachev let the ethnic violence spin out of control last week before sending in troops. At the same time, there was an uneasy feeling that the country's army might find itself bogged down in another Afghanistan, within its own borders, fighting a people just as ferociously dedicated to defeating Moscow. Those fears were illustrated...