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Conflicting Character. Like many other artists whose lives and works were obliterated during Stalin's purges, Babel was guilty not of disloyalty to the Revolution but of not being demonstrably loyal enough. Apparently, Stalin expected much of this stocky, near sighted Jew, who in the 1920s had become an...
Sir; Playboy has had the privilege, over the years, of publishing three works by Vladimir Nabokov, in whole or in part, before they became books. The most recent was Ada and, as TIME noted in quoting the author, he was less than pleased with the accompanying illustrations. You implied, I...
The festival tested musical fortitude as well as memories. For performances of Offenbach's ballet Le Papillon, which has never been given outside the Paris Opèra, Butler teachers and students spent hours reconstructing the orchestral parts from a copy of the original conductor's score. "I...
Composing Epitaphs. One of the fledgling businessmen's first assignments, for example, was to compose six different answers to the question "Who am I?" These papers were later openly graded for imagination and what McClelland calls n Ach content, his shorthand for the kind of motivation that distinguishes the...
He is not only the Times drama critic but its dance critic as well. He revisits hits to make sure audiences are getting their money's worth. He often has simultaneous reviews in the same edition; once he had four, an event that occasioned a different kind of criticism...