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...program of theater and seminar is the first event of this year sponsored by "Side by Side" council for the performing arts. The one-year-old organization brings top level performers to Harvard and offers casting help in professional films, Danielle Alexandra '79-4, president of "Side by Side," said Sunday...
...DIED. Alexandra Tolstoy, 95, last surviving daughter of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy; in Valley Cottage, N.Y. The eleventh of Tolstoy's twelve children and a favorite of his, "Sasha" became her father's secretary at 17 and executor of his will in 1910. She never married because, she said, "I didn't want to exchange my father for someone else." After working as a nurse on the front lines of World War I, she became active in anti-Bolshevik intellectual circles, and was arrested five times and jailed for a year. In 1931 she immigrated...
Crimson editors assisting in the coverage of the Pope's visit include Robert O. Boorstin, Susan K. Brown, Alexandra D. Korry, Oren S. Makov, Amy B. McIntosh, William E. McKibben, and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire...
...jockeys were spinning the group's recording of Rasputin, which has been issued by the government record company Melodiya. At the same time, curiously, the sellout novel of the year depicts Grigori Rasputin's sexual escapades, including boudoir frolics with Russia's last empress, the Tsarina Alexandra...
...other and more unsavory functions. One is to encourage the xenophobia that still has a strong hold on the many Russian chauvinists in the elite, who believe that alien forces have caused their homeland's troubles down through the ages. One handy target is the German-born Alexandra, who is described in the novel as a featherbrained traitor to Russia. Pikul's fictional Tsar Alexander III is quoted as saying of his future daughter-in-law and her German relatives, "I have a feeling they have a lot in their pants but very little under their hats...