Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...even Soviet Central Asians often find that early in a conversation with Russians they have to establish clearly that they are not Chinese, or pro-Chinese, before their hosts lower their guard. Says a young Muscovite: "When we see yellow skin and slanted eyes, we automatically want to know, is this guy nash [one of ours]? Is he on our side?" If an American talks international politics with a Russian, the subject of China is sure to come up. Sooner or later, the Russian is likely to lean forward and say, almost in so many words, "We white folks have...
...lessons of a Soviet education is that while one must know the Marxist-Leninist catechism, and party membership is a great asset, being a true believer is not necessary; it may even be a disadvantage in a society where power enjoys more respect and earns more reward than ideological purity. A British Foreign Office expert on the U.S.S.R. sees the country as "running out of ideological élan with which to face the many challenges of the future." Ideology is still an important, indeed inescapable, aspect of Soviet life. Its trappings are everywhere. The country is plastered with huge billboards...
Scott has been teaching for 40 years, and much of the current talk about teacher burnout irritates her. She knows firsthand all the problems and questions that beset teachers. "There's a breakdown in family life. Everyone does his own thing," she admits. "The number of children actually doing the work and keeping up are in the minority." Excessive paperwork? "The only way I deal with it is to try to do it," she says, though she now often has to grade papers during lunch hour as well as at home. Kids who won't do homework...
...sacred and profane memoirs of an exaggerated autobiographical character named Joshua Shapiro, a Montreal writer and TV personality. A resemblance to Evelyn Waugh's novel is not farfetched. Richler twice borrows the comic master's line about the companions of his youth: "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." In addition, the prodigal North American seems to have learned much from Waugh about episodic plotting and mixing poignant and farcical events...
...rejection-filled life. In Killings a man on the eve of graduate school is fatally shot by his girlfriend's estranged husband. A month later the father's grief still grows: "It was a cool summer night; he thought vaguely of the Red Sox, did not even know if they were at home tonight; since it happened he had not been able to think about any of the small pleasures he believed he had earned, as he had earned also what was shattered now forever: the quietly harried and quietly pleasurable days of fatherhood." The tide of such...