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...time the crew's practicing facilities were considerably inferior to what they are now and in between much energy was devoted to fund raising rather than rowing. Now, with an expanded coaching staff and more acceptable workout conditions, the only weight an oarswoman has to pull...
...first volume in 1928. Yet, Solzhenitsyn points out, "the book reveals the kind of literary power attainable only after many attempts by an experienced and accomplished writer." He also joins many critics in observing that Sholokhov's other fiction (Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies translated into 40 different Soviet languages), and Soviet textbooks extol it as the supreme literary accomplishment of Communism. The book continues to be widely read in Soviet schools...
...rather as a comeuppance for an old grudge. Colette Delavigne, aged 27, is a judge in the juvenile courts and the pretty offspring of a brilliant haute bourgeois family. Colette is married to Bernard, a rich young executive who sells yogurt but is by her standards a social inferior. When a spiteful villager abducts their eight-year-old daughter as part of an ongoing vendetta against Colette's family, the Delavigne marriage is further strained...
Critics believe that the U.S. gave up too much and failed to anticipate Russia's growing technological sophistication (see page 25). "In the interim agreement (SALT I), we agreed to inferior numbers, but the Soviets did not agree to inferior technology," says Senator Jackson, echoing the concerns of Defense Secretary Schlesinger and the Pentagon...
...problem but claimed that "any specific regulatory provision would raise grave constitutional questions under the First Amendment." That failure to act, said Ann Scott, legislative vice president at the National Organization for Women, is "desperately serious. They are still allowing girls to be taught that they are inferior...