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Schecter says that his Russian friends reacted to him in different ways. "some were just after the novelties of your life-style," he notes, "such as bubble gum, foreign stamps, and felt-tip pens. Or listening to music and bumming Marlboros off you. It was t(ose kinds of people we ended up parting with, because they weren't true friends. You tolerate this at first because you want to meet people and learn about them." He says that those who remained his friends, although originally attracted to him and the other Schecter sibs by their American luxuries, "weren...
...descriptions of the differences between Russian and American consumerism are striking. The Schecter children report that adults in Russia repeatedly begged American students to bring them felt-tip pens, a rare commodity in Russia. American liquor is viewed as an important status symbol. Soviet stores are perpetually out of merchandise. It seems at times as if all of Russia is standing in line for one thing or another. On the other hand, children in Russia eat red caviar on black bread for breakfast. Overall, the Americans had to do considerable adjusting to survive in Russia...
First, to recap: The Crimson victories can be listed in a very small amount of space. Brandeis, Rochester, Brown, B.C., B.U., Yale, Cornell, and Columbia. But that is just the tip of the iceberg...
Wallace just can't deal with Carter the same way he bludgeoned poor Albert Brewer. Not only does he have to speak the sanitized language of the presidential campaign, he must as well watch Carter take a tip from Max Weber and take advantage of the routinization of his charisma, the routinization of his demagoguery...
...before the primary, most Administration spokesmen seemed to feel that Nixon's purpose was less to resurrect himself than to crucify Ford. Some even speculated that Nixon wanted to harm Ford in New Hampshire so that the ex-President could broker a deadlocked Republican convention this summer and tip the nomination to Texan John Connally, the lapsed Democrat. Whether that was true or not, it was clear that, whatever his ulterior motives, Nixon had allowed himself to be manipulated by Peking for the purposes of Chinese, and not U.S., foreign policy. Following by just 2½ months an unproductive...