Word: ways
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...these days there is nothing normal about Soviet politics. In a way, there never has been. In the bad old days of Stalinism and stagnation, the personality of the leader mattered so much because he stood at the top of a hierarchical system -- and at the center of a highly centralized one. What he said counted because anyone who disagreed with him could be shot or at least banished from public life...
...unifying structures and attitudes (particularly that of fear), he often seems to speak for all that is left of a single country. What he says counts because everyone else is arguing not just with him but with one another. If Shevardnadze's warning comes true and Gorbachev gives way to -- or becomes -- a neo-Stalinist, that personality too must be the focus of U.S. policy and the outside world's anxious attention...
...Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Comic novels, essays and biographies waft from Wilson with Mozartean ease. Each book seems better than the last, or at least different in some incomparable way. Such is the case with his approach to Lewis, the British writer and celebrator of Christian thought who delighted both adults (The Screwtape Letters) and children (The Chronicles of Narnia). Fans should be warned that Wilson's portrait of the saintly don contains some fleshy demons...
...psychologically so far apart. He takes the true story of a young man who entered the homes of the privileged by purporting to be Sidney Poitier's son and brings into collision the normally separated lives of some modern Manhattanites, each yearning to know about some distant and romantic way of life that is actually just an acquaintanceship or two away...
...fine. If you've got borderlines, let them be in your mind." For some blacks resettled in the South, the Northern cities they left behind have long ago abandoned any pretense of racial detente. In Barnwell, Scott, the retired construction worker, says he follows TV news reports about the way people up North are "fighting and don't want to live here and don't want to live there. To me, there is more prejudice up there now than there is down South...