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...cranium (quite tasty) and the center of the ear (quite gristly). This was only the ceremonial dish in what sometimes stretched into a 21-course meal. After some feasts, entertainment followed, and the guest was expected to reciprocate. Douglas, a onetime Yale law professor, kicked out some pretty fair Cossack polkas and warbled the Whiffenpoof Song...
...born near Rostov in the Don Cossack country and he came up the hard way, through the Young Communist League to Moscow's Marx-Engels Institute and a Communist teaching job. In 1941 he was assigned to the Soviet Foreign Office, and two years later he was head of the division dealing with central Europe. His biggest coup took place in 1948, when he masterminded the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. While maintaining a smiling relationship with President Benes, Zorin gathered together a team of Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section...
...driven apparently by Sturmovik pilots intent on dive-bombing pedestrians. Or, as a recent visitor put it: "Dodging in and out of lanes, with nary a signal and with wild shouts of profanity at other cars, the Russian driver seems to be recapturing the elation felt by the Cossack of old when he swooped down from the steppes to carve up a few Persians...
When Isaac Emanuelovich Babel was ten years old, he saw his father kneel in the mud before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life...
Later, in Berlin as an occupation High Commissioner, Zhukov relaxed. He danced a Cossack dance for French General de Lattre de Tassigny, ate all the salted peanuts he could lay his hands on, amused himself with Reichsmarshal Goring's private zoo, had a pretty German cottage dismantled and shipped back to Moscow. He went riding every morning, ice skating when there was ice, and was proud of his fitness. Years before, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Walter Kerr, explaining how difficult it was to learn anything about Zhukov's personal life, had said that the only time...