Word: goodness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...
...private life. He admits that in 1948 he was asked by agents of the KGB to woo a fellow student, the daughter of a French naval attache. He complied without knowing their purpose or even the extent of his own motives. Years later, Sinyavsky put the intrigue to good use by enlisting the Frenchwoman to help smuggle his writings to the West...
...reality promises further knowledge of the whole. At times he can be -- well, freakish. How about an interpretation of Superman as the most vulnerable of beings because his childhood had been destroyed? Outre? You bet. But as Mamet confesses, "I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact." R.Z.S...
Recent events in Eastern Europe recall the failed revolutions of the past century. But there are important differences -- and good reasons to hope for a happier outcome this time...
...ramifications of this possibility are so serious that they ought to worry the West more than they do. Would a complete Soviet collapse, after all, be a good or a bad thing...