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Noticeably absent from the article, however, was any mention of certain rights considered fundamental by most human rights activists in this country--freedom of religion, protection from discrimination, and the liberty to study one's own national language. Although all of these rights are "guaranteed" by the Soviet Constitution, a Jewish scientist observed that "in reality, we have these rights only if we do not try to exercise them...
...boosting its record to 6-3. Harvard returned to the form that had carried the squad to five straight victories earlier this season, with a well-balanced offense and tight team defense. The inexperience and lack of killer instinct that hampered the Crimson in earlier games were noticeably absent from this contest...
...Brezhnev turns up this week in Moscow for the annual festivities marking the birthday of Vladimir I. Lenin, founder of the Soviet state-an important occasion on the Kremlin calendar-the rumors may be put to rest. But if he is absent, speculation about his deteriorating health is sure to intensify...
...those feelings to one another. We see it in the family, on the street, in magazines, movies, and on TV. Thus do we shape our idea of what is right, normal, natural, and good. The image of two men or two women expressing affection to one another is simply absent. It is as if other people like us do not exist. We hear stories and see fictional portraits of strange, defective people who pervertedly act out our feelings, and we wonder if that is who we really...
Bitterness is conspicuously absent from this reverie and from the Adams women in general. They may occasionally feel like the victims of heartless or unworthy men, but they are too proud and intelligent to think of themselves in that fashion. They refuse to enlist in the war between the sexes. Both sides, they sense, are fighting on different fronts against common enemies: aging, disillusionment, what one character calls "the sheer fatigue of living." Adams generously gives her characters their victories, which, like the stories themselves, are no less exhilarating for being short...