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Ustinov, who had been rumored to be ill for several months, was the first civilian to head the Soviet military since Leon Trotsky. He personified the principle that the Soviet armed forces must ultimately be the servant of the Communist Party. Still, during his eight years in the post, the...
A stocky, sandy-haired man with gold-rimmed spectacles, Ustinov exuded neither charm nor charisma. Nonetheless, as a member of the dwindling but powerful old guard that had survived both Brezhnev and his successor, Yuri Andropov, he had become a more visible public presence early this year: in February, Soviet...
A place called Macondo begins cropping up in the stories, as do the names of some who have figured prominently and mysteriously in its history: Colonel Aureliano Buendia, JoséArcadio Buendia. The village-universe of One Hundred Years of Solitude makes brief, embryonic appearances. Big Mama's Funeral...
" This is, for all the world's unbelievers, the true account of Big Mama, absolute sovereign of the Kingdom of Macondo, who lived for 92 years, and died in the odor of sanctity one Tuesday last September, and whose funeral was attended by the Pope.
Isenberg a Brookline native and graduate of Lowell House, was active in Harvard theater, and scores of friends from the Harvard acting community attended her Brookline funeral Wednesday.