The Assistant Producer

There was nothing of your popular Russian general about him, nothing of that good, burly, popeyed,. thick-necked sort. He was lean, frail, with sharp features, a clipped. mustache, and the kind of haircut that is called by Russians "hedgehog": short, wiry, upright, and compact.

We have a saying in Russian: vsevo dvoe i est; smert' da sovest'-- which may be rendered thus: "There are only two things that really exist-- one's death and one's conscience." The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong.