Word: bolsheviks
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...keystone of the Holy Alliance, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, was dead at 48. With him had passed the hopes of the peasantry for reforms and freedoms that he had long espoused; after him came an era of intermittent repression and misrule that led finally to the Bolshevik Revolution. But had Alexander really died? Last week in Moscow, a Soviet writer once again exhumed a 140-year-old legend that Alexander faked his death, then took up a 39-year life of humble repentance as a wandering starets (holy man) in Siberia...
...life of a mystic and martyr, a pre-Soviet hero and reformer, Russia's new bosses are showing a broad-mindedness far greater than that of their predecessors. The resurgence of the Alexander legend shows an acceptance of not only a Czar but an aspect of pro-Bolshevik history that transcends the rigid confines of Marxist-Leninist "truth...
...only to be but to play the poet. Since the poetic image was proletarian at the time (1934), Dylan promptly plunged into the slums of Soho and there tried terribly hard to be a roly-proley Marxist. Though he looked like a choirboy, he argued like a Bolshevik, dressed like a bum, drank like a culvert, smoked like an ad for cancer, bragged that he was addicted to onanism and had committed an indecency with a member of Parliament. He slept with any woman who was willing, subsisted largely on a diet of ice cream sodas mixed with ale instead...
Lubitsch also deals in social comment, but the touch is so gentle that no one could be offended. A scene in a luxury hotel in Venice closes with a shot of a garbage scow on the canal, the boatman breaking into lusty song. A young Bolshevik scolds an indulgent heiress, but his overzealousness places the joke equally...
There is something to be said (but not much) for any writer who can think up titles like Sexus, Plexus and Nexus. The names chime like a singing commercial piped by Priapean elves, all trying to jolly the reader into putting up once more with that old boudoir Bolshevik, Henry Miller, the Lenin of the dirty-word revolution...