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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...send lower-ranking diplomats. Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, boycotted the Red Square parade in specific protest against the killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson in March by a Soviet sentry in East Germany. But Hartman did lay a wreath at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "This is our tribute to those who gave their lives," he said. "It is the most significant ceremony...
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In a torchlight ceremony at the Soviet war memorial in East Berlin, ranks of blue-shirted youngsters from the Communist Free German Youth saluted the 5,000 Soviet soldiers buried there...
...Hurok, I'm a total unknown...
...problem, then, is in Mallon's presentation of what remains a fine and broad selection of diarists and journal-keepers. There is an impressive span in the book from the expected to the unknown, from Samuel Pepys and Dorothy Wordsworth to the diaries of ordinary pioneer women undergoing extraordinary hardships. This host of diarists is sifted into sections--one for prisoners, one for travelers, one for creators, and the like. The resulting juxtapositions could be enlightening and provocative and could make for an absorbing book. Unfortunately, Mallon's text leaves us without any resounding insight into the curious business...
Babette takes drugs but not your average drugs. Responding to a tabloid advertisement--"Live Forever!"--she becomes involved in an illicit experiment, ingesting secret pills to assuage her Fear of the Unknown. Jack is clued into her shenanigans and, typically enough in this novel, confronts her with his suspicions over the kitchen tabl. It is a touchy subject for Babette: "To the best of my knowledge, Jack, I'm not taking anything that could account for my memory lapses. On the other hand I'm not old. I haven't suffered an injury to the head and there's nothing...