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...Television will be the greatest influence" on public opinion as it is in the West, Getler said. "Is the Eastern European reader ready for a new kind of press...
...Thernstrom's credit that she makes this elaborate tale of injustice seem so real to the reader. She accomplishes this by strongly, effectively communicating who Roberta Lee was, what she liked, what she wanted, what pained her. Thernstrom does not allow Lee to become a two-dimensional character doomed to die. The senselessness of her friend's death is never forgotten by the book...
...reader. Thernstrom avoids overblown prose, and her work is mimetic. She cannot explain the reasons for the egregious crime, because, she suggests, there is not always an answer to why. Given the topic and the author's near-brutal realism, The Dead Girl at times reads like an extended obituary. But the work never fails to be engrossing and rewarding...
...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
Unfortunately, reality is far different. The Constitution is sufficiently ambiguous that no two--much less nine--jurists could ever interpret it in exactly the same way. Everyone has a different opinion about what the document means, and those opinions hinge on the reader's political values. Thus, one justice might believe that the 14th Amendment protects only Blacks from discrimination, while another might argue that it protects all groups...