Word: alyosha
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...still," Merilee told Sam and Alyosha, "if I could get my hands on a kee somewhere and take it up north to sell, do you realize what we could clear? We may be on emergency rations, but up there the folk must be-whushl" It made them shiver to consider...
...besides, there's no keeds anywhere," said Alyosha, the person who always knew where all the kees were at the way the best poker players magically know the location of all the aces...
...Alyosha said there was a present for them in his car and asked Sam to bring it in. Hearing the screen door slam, Merilee said softly, "My husband-to-be still eats meat...
...said, 'Sleep quietly, dear Comrade.' We will not say this," began Grigorenko, glancing down at the visage of his friend. "In the first place, he will not listen to me. He will continue to fight, anyway. In the second place, it is impossible for me without you, Alyosha. You sit inside me, and you will stay there. Therefore, do not sleep, Alyosha! Fight, Alyosha! Burn all the abominable meanness with which they want to keep turning eternally that damned machine against which you fought all your life...
...Alyosha is very nearly a stock hero. Certainly he possesses all the deadly virtues. But Ivashov plays the role gently, with humor (shrewdly bribing an officiously corrupt train guard, telling white lies to the father of the soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...