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...told his students that the 1917 Revolution, which had been taught for decades as holy writ, was not so glorious as their government-issued textbooks had portrayed it. The students proved to be fast learners. "Lenin was a dark personality," one of Isayev's pupils says, when a Western visitor asks him about the founder of the modern Soviet state. He made "big mistakes" and caused "a catastrophe...
...They've really taken over the building. It's so professional it's sterile," says one senior who asked not to be named. "You're always a visitor in the building--I've always felt like a guest...
...What gets to me about that theme," Thomas tells his visitor, "is that it takes many directions but basically it's all one thing: falling." That reminds him of a Rilke poem, Autumn. "The leaves are falling," he says in singsong paraphrase, playing the passage again, "falling from on high as if from heaven's dying orchards. And each leaf falls with its own special gesture of denial, saying...
Bush and his top aides have been telling virtually every Central European visitor to Washington -- German, Pole, Czech -- that NATO should remain intact and G.I.s should stay in West Germany, so that the postwar order does not give way to post-postwar disorder. Bush has been making essentially the same case to Gorbachev in their correspondence and telephone conversations, and he will do so in person at their summit in the U.S. this June...
...Lord "descended upon ((Mount Sinai)) in fire," Exodus records. The Lord gave the Law to Moses there: "And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking . . ." Today a visitor sees the massive granite front of Horeb that rises perpendicularly out of moonscape and in the autumn and winter months may be surrounded by sudden clouds, thunder, lightning and lashing rains...