Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most overtly political story of In Plain Russian, in fact, is the least successful. "A Circle of Friends" depicts Stalin and his top advisors on the eve of the German invasion in June 1941 as a pack of drooling children barely able to complete a crossword puzzle, let alone manage a nation. Voinovich's farce bludgeons where a lighter hand might better serve Western audiences weaned on Animal Farm's model of anti-Stalinist allegory...
...PLAIN RUSSIAN also contains Voinovich's sally into a hoary Russian genre, the "death of a forgotten man" story. In "A Distance of a Half a Kilometer," a nondescript man dies at his dinnertable, his face plopping forward into a bowl of pea soup. Not as cosmically reverbrating as, say, Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych," this story has a black-and-white bluntness that sheds a fascinating glare on its subject...
White agreed to hold the meeting after students protested the city's failure to take proper action after the September 28 allegedly racially-motivated shooting of Darryl Williams, a black Jamaica Plain High School football player...
...students from Jamaica Plain and Charlestown high schools attended White's meeting. Johnson said representatives of the schools should have attended the meeting, adding, "those two schools were the ones involved...
...Black Students' Association (BSA) raised more than $340 at a fundraising party Sunday night at Dunster House for Darryl Williams, the Jamaica Plain High School student who was shot and paralyzed September 28 at a Charlestown High School football game...