above the fold/below the fold

[Victor Steinbok]

I don't doubt Pollock's expertise for a moment. But subtle cultural
clues are often difficult to pick up unless "you were there" or are
familiar with direct extension of the culture. I had a grad-school class
with Loren Graham whose expertise on Russian and Soviet science was no
less than Pollocks, but he readily admitted that there were cultural
things that one simply cannot pick up from reading the sources.

     VS-)

On 4/22/2011 12:19 AM, George Thompson wrote:
> Interesting.  The words are those of the reviewer, Ethan Pollock, who is identified as the author of Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars., 2006.  He's working on a project on the Russian bath house.  Evidently he can read Russian, and I would suppose has read Stalin-era Russian newspapers for his own research.  Maybe he is using the term in a figurative sense, meaning "not prominently displayed".
> The book is The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, by Asif A. Siddiqi.

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