Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing, however, was one art that "did not seem to me to be plausible," Robison says. "I had wanted to be other things, but I am at an age where I'm narrowing my focus. I am probably not going to be a rock star or a nuclear physicist...
...also read excerpts from a new play he finished New Year's Day called "Hapgood." The play's main characters are a spy-catcher and a Russian partical physicist who is also a double agent. "Einstein did not believe in a God who threw dice," the Russian says...
...physicist recalls watching another senior run "up and down stairs trying to get trick-knee. He actually got the deferment, the old bastard...
Meanwhile, back in the Kakus' homeland, severalof their relatives died in the Hiroshima blast.The physicist says he "grew up in the shadow ofthe atomic bomb...
Soviet leaders could not have said it better. Indeed, the returning emigres put a fine cap on the public relations success that the Kremlin scored last month when it allowed Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov to return to Moscow after seven years of internal exile in the city of Gorky. The Soviets lost little time in trumpeting the prodigals' homecoming. Their arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport was prominently shown on the nightly TV news program Vremya. The TASS news agency gravely intoned, "Many former Soviet citizens, duped by Western propaganda into leaving for capitalist countries, have been allowed to return...