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...occasional attempts to find symbolic meaning in his experiences generally fall flat; he has not written a novel. The experiences themselves, though, are vivid enough to provide a convincing picture of a life behind a different veil--the one that shrouds a desert country from Western eyes. Perhaps the reader is not ready to pack his bags and move to the Empty Quarter, but he will surely be glad that Gray...
...variety of issues, including the history of U.S. Soviet relations since the Revolution in 1917, popular Soviet perceptions of America and dealings with other nations. But the focus of their talks is the deterioration of détente what emerges is more than a little disturbing for the American reader because the Soviet viewpoint is often strikingly logical...
Most of Arbatov's discussion of human rights is pure rhetoric. When he states, for example, that the USSR has "a deep and long standing commitment to human rights" and adds that "it's for human rights that we made our revolution," the reader is tempted above all else to Laugh Rarely is there a defense of the utter lack of freedom of speech, movement and religious practice in the USSR. When such questions do arise. Arbatov either shifts the discussion to human rights "abuses" in the West or sidesteps the issue altogether. As for Oltmans he never sees...
...Richard Raskind story would be difficult to ruin, and the authors make sure to keep out of its way. In fact, the book reads like a collection of stories and thoughts pieced together with some errant editorial comments. Nothing, it seems, is held back the reader must wade through all the gory and embarrassing details. Which doesn't of course, make it any less enjoyable...
...libido steered him towards both sexes, but Renee never quite indicates where it was taking him when. Trying to keep in the first person throughout the story, she cannot resist going back to a third person "he" or "Dick" in the description of the pre-operation adventures. The reader is left understandably confused about a man who at Yale had an affair with a Smith girl while simultaneously dressing up as a woman for Greenwich Village homosexual liaisons: who in his later years married and had a son, but soon after spent a year in Europe posing as a woman...