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...result, An American Family in Moscow, is the seven Schecter's account of their experiences in the Soviet capital from 1968 to 1970 while the father, Jerrold Schecter, was a time correspondent there. Unlike the average American family in the Soviet Union, which retreats into its own artificial Western womb, the Schecter family tried to immerse itself in Soviet life as fully as possible. Now six years later, reclining leisurely in his Claverly suite and surrounded by posters of Lenin and other Russian souvenirs, Steve Schecter reminisces about his days in Moscow...
...watch as her parents are burned at the stake for witchcraft. Later she is brought to the colonies by Sea Captain Jared Bilby, who is enchanted by her. In Massachusetts, Doll takes one look at Bilby's wife Hannah and is able to wither the fetus in her womb-or so Hannah later contends. At 19, Doll takes a lover named Shad, convinced he is a messenger from the King of Hell. Arrested as a witch, she dies in jail convinced not only that she is one, but that Satan will be her salvation...
Alrich's main complaint is that in the past few decades Harvard has become more and more like the real world, and less and less the warm womb of "cushioned unreality" it was when he was a student. He flinches at the large enrollments of courses like Ec 10 and Chem 20, for the students appear to be forsaking the liberal arts tradition that served him and his fellow alumni so well. He complains that the professors have changed too. They now exhibit a "professorial worldiness" marked by "their eagerness to sell their advice, to fly to exotic meetings ground...
...hard slap to the face of a daughter at her first menstruation. Most other mothers, says Weideger, deliver the slap in psychic form, teaching daughters to feel shame about a natural process (the periodic shedding, brought on by a drop in hormonal production, of the lining of the womb when the ovum has not been fertilized...
...finest in the world"). His airplane-window view of America inspires musings on our manifest destiny--he looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity"--and memories of the red loess in the mountains of Siam. The whole thing gets to be a little diffuse...