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World's Fair is not a happy book. The dreariness of the '30s and the strains of family life appear to have had a bad effect on Edgar's style. He is either too terse or verbosely academic, as if the boy grew up to be a literary critic rather than a novelist. Evocations of his time and place are frequently bloated with pretentious prose: "In my own consciousness I was not a child. When I was alone, not subject to the demands of the world, I had the opportunity to be the aware sentient being I knew myself...
...from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena for Medvid to appear before a Senate committee (see following story...
...academic source of information. Although his writings reflect a yearning to return to the détente of the early 1970s, he rarely deviates from the official Soviet line. His stiff criticism in 1981 of U.S. policy led the Administration to refuse to extend his visa so he could appear on a U.S. television program. In a typical laconic response, he told a TV interviewer, "What the Soviet Union is doing is explaining its position to the world. Somehow, your people don't like...
...inept handling of the case set off a storm on Capitol Hill. Since corn shipments were involved, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued a subpoena ordering Medvid to appear before the committee. Helms' aides served the paper on the ship's captain, but Soviet officials announced that they would not comply. In fact, the Senate committee had no practical way to enforce its subpoena, and the ship's departure showed the futility of trying to clean up a diplomatic mess through congressional intervention...
...above scene will, in all likelihood, not appear in next week's episode of Dallas. Bel Geddes this fall reclaimed the role she originated (Reed replaced her last season when Bel Geddes withdrew for health reasons), and even TV soap operas generally observe a basic law of physics: two actors cannot occupy the same role at the same time. Still, one can never be too sure. Strange things happen when aging shows begin casting around for ways to keep viewers interested...