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...Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present???and how we haunt the future...
True, that terror subsided after 1956, when, by Khrushchev's decree, millions were freed from the giant "archipelago" of prisons and camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. But the significance of Gulag lies in its thrust into the present???and future?of the U.S.S.R...
...Rhine knows that any sane insurance actuary would agree with him that chance is ruled out. To rule out other factors he has taken elaborate measures. And whenever possible Dr. Rhine had witnesses present???departmental colleagues, skeptical or friendly, frequently Dr. McDougall himself. He even invited Wallace Lee, a professional magician, to observe some tests and explain the scores if he could. Magician Lee came and observed but did not explain...
...other the party became a marked success. There was no formal banquet table, no rigid order of precedence. Queen Wilhelmina had seen to that. She knew that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden would be outranked as a mere treasury official by the several prime ministers and foreign ministers present???and certainly Mr. Snowden would have been furious had he been seated below Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece! Therefore the delegates were seated not at one straight table but at ten round ones. Each statesman might fancy that where he sat was the head...
...politics. Desiring peace among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter?Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present???and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...