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Maxim Gorky's life was the irresistible legend: unschooled Volga boatman turned great writer, angry appellant for Red Revolution, friend of Tolstoy and Lenin, humanist who loathed repression, diver to The Lower Depths and the grim, gritty world of his Childhood. In fact, judging from this careful exhumation of the man by Dan Levin, sometime novelist and lifelong Gorkyite, Gorky was at once a less noble and more tragic figure than his legend suggests...
Where the boatman, though the flood...
...second anniversary, Communist police assigned to guard it were themselves defecting at the rate of one a day. At Checkpoint Charlie two guards, screened momentarily by a tourist bus crossing from the West, stepped smilingly over the white dividing line. On the River Elbe a 50-year-old boatman packed his wife and three children into a stolen motor launch, put-putted to freedom. Two men rowed a kayak across the Baltic to Denmark. The 20-year-old stepdaughter of an East German army colonel slipped through barbed wire south of the Wall, reported that East German youth...
...days when every boatman knew the difference between a jib and a jibe, a man who ventured upon the water in any vessel, large or small, did so with a lively respect for the perils of the deep and an awareness that the mariner's world required special skills and knowledge. Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina, while the outboard motor has evolved from a poky put-put to a roaring, soaring substitute for a jet fighter plane...
...Radziwill, Lee's three-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, a dozen or so U.S. Secret Service agents, a score of Italian cops, and an ample household staff. At home Caroline played hostess to some of the village children-the daughters of a carpenter, a boatman, a laborer. None of them spoke English, and Caroline does not yet speak Italian. But in the international language of kids, they communicated perfectly...