Word: robison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western diplomat in Moscow: "I really think Chernenko is there just to keep the political mechanism going until they decide what to do. For the moment, it looks like a collective leadership with everyone very much in charge of his own portfolio." According to Middlebury College President Olin Robison, who has had frequent dealings with high-level Soviet officials, collective leadership in the Politburo has gradually grown more diffuse since Chernenko took office. Says he: "There is no longer any strong personality at the center. The people around Chernenko are stronger than...
...unofficial kickoff to the series, the magazine also sponsored a reading last night by Mary Robison, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and author of works including "Oh!" and "An Amateur's Guide to the Night...
...BEST of Robison's stories, the ones that remain in memory like "Coach" and "The Wellman Twins," present situations filled with incidental pleasures and characters who find purpose beyond the bare outlines of their lives. In "The Wellman Twins," the twins Bluey and Greer have shared a game since childhood, called "getting bold." It is supposed to be a private covenant for a session of secrets and truth-telling, but they use the opportunity to regale each other with outrageous lies--tall tales which gradually spiral down to a compact center of truth. Bluey has been writing letters...
...less hopeful story, "Smart," the main character says flatly: "It's just that people, they don't ever do what they don't want to do. And they can't ever be what they aren't already." But in "The Wellman Twins," Robison shows us a less determined reality, one that can be altered by the imagination perhaps. Bluey confesses at last that the letters...
Subdued hope is the most ebullient of Robison's emotional promises, but her restrained wit and craftsman's ear for dialogue make An Amateur's Guide to the Night a quiet treat. It doen't light up new arenas of expression, but it does help establish her as a master of the minister and a portraitist...