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...Molotov laid on a huge reception, attended by foreign diplomats, top Russian brass and correspondents. Afterward, they were honored with a lavish dinner presided over by Premier Malenkov himself, flanked by the man who jostles him for supreme power. First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. The night was filled with vodka and flushed talk of victory...
...book about the corruption of a nation's soul. Few scenes are memorable in themselves, but the cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts of Soviet life: "The Government keeps you, pays you, looks after you without end. Now you're going to pay some...
...want to stay alive," a friend advises her, "you must fight, not sneer. You might think that this is Paris, a safe capital, but it is like any place-the jungle." More bent on escape than combat, Kristina runs into an old flame, Jas Ostrowski. A few glasses of vodka make Jas talkative. "Now, the good girls differ only in one respect from the bad ones," he says. "You lose a tremendous amount of time on them." Kristina is ready and eager to make up for lost time when her long-gone husband shows up with the same idea...
...Lewis at the tavern: "We're ordering six bottles of vodka and practicing pouring it into tiny glasses until they almost overflow. We hear that's Russian style." Said Mrs. Pearce: "I'm installing...
Perhaps it will help relationships." But the Jolly Waterman's vodka went unpoured. The Russians billeted there objected to the long hike to the Thames, and all moved in with the Pearces, who promptly left a note for the milkman to start delivering 40 pts. a day. At the table the crew fell to with precision, putting away great piles of sliced bread, steaming bowls of soup intended to approximate shchee (Russian cabbage soup), potatoes, tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, lamb, milk and soda water. On the river each day, they honed their choppy, elliptical rowing stroke to a fine edge...