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Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair's son William [May 26] is a living symbol of what God can do for a person, no matter how far he may stray. God still loves his mother, if only she would turn...
...like Optimisty (the Optimists) and Vesyoliye Rebyata (the Happy Fellows). The titles suggest what the material is like: How Wonderful the World Is!, It Isn't Your Flowers That I Love and I'll Take You Away to the Tundra. Even newer, rock-oriented music does not stray far from this sentimental mold. One of the most progressive of Moscow's young rock bands, Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine), lays down reheated versions of vintage Chicago riffs...
...reason for the persecution is his celebrated novella, Faithful Ruslan, which has circulated all over the country in samizdat; it was published in the U.S. last year by Simon & Schuster. Ruslan tells of a concentration-camp dog, pitilessly trained to guard convicts, that becomes a stray when most of the Stalinist camps are closed down in 1956. Ruslan, and other dogs of his kind, keep a vigil at the local railway station, hoping for the arrival of the familiar convoys of prisoners whom they can once again herd to the camp. "Anyone who waits with such single-minded devotion...
...this is rather a thin deceit to cover the grim truth of Rosovsky's predicament, that few professors are willing to stray from their chosen academic niches. Indeed, the decline of Gen Ed in the last two decades testifies to the gradual disappearance of broad-based academicians willing to synthesize the range of material necessary to lead a survey course. The students, it seems, are not unaccompanied in their march toward specialization...
...resident children (ages 17, 14 and ten) off to school. She orders one to remember to feed the dog, then bustles around a six-room frame house at 61 Monroe Street in a working-class area. The house is 64 years old and tax delinquent. After picking up a stray article of clothing here, dusting a table top there, Mary too is off-to work for the city of Hartford, which could throw her out of her home but won't. Mary Haley is one of 98 property owners who will pay an in-kind tax this year...