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...case of Alexander Pushkin, not only his poetry but his whole essence seems to be lost in translation. Russians-from schoolchildren to arcane critics-still devour Pushkin's poems, plays and stories. His work is viewed at home as the headwater of the great streams in Russian literature. Tolstoy admitted that the idea for Anna Karenina flowed from an unfinished Pushkin story. Dostoevsky once said: "If Pushkin had not existed, there would have been no talented writers to follow." Even the modern Soviet state claims him as a comrade, maintaining that many of his best lines were premature party...
...bring Russia into competition with the modern world, by destroying the individual initiative of every Soviet citizen, from the simple worker to the great scientist who is crucial to the development of Soviet technology. And, perhaps most important, the powerful secret-police organization needed to impose terror might well devour the political leaders who had revived...
...meant cutting her salary in half (and signing an agreement never to write about Jackie), Annemarie did not hesitate. A girl for all seasonings, she could turn out French, German and Italian dishes, and once in a while Chinese. Best of all, she got John Jr. and Caroline to devour their spinach by decorating it with little egg-white faces. Last Christmas, Mrs. Kennedy's Christmas card to her read: "You make such a happy house when you let the children help you cook...
...Senate and do hand springs?" he asks. "To fulminate like Wayne Morse? Or to listen to the same speeches on the same issues?" He refuses to worry about roll-call votes "just to get on the record." And though he scorns fence-mending chores that can devour a Senator's time, Minnesotans don't seem to mind; they seek out Senator Walter Mondale or Congressman John Blatnik instead, and continue to vote for McCarthy...
Still-not entirely to his distress-Freshman Percy has attracted a lot of expensive attention, the kind that can quickly devour the $279,306 annual office budget that he is allowed by the Government. An average of 1,500 letters a day cascade into Percy's office; his secretaries answer 200 telephone calls daily-a volume probably matched only by that of New York's Senator Robert Kennedy. He has traveled 150,000 miles to speak in more than 60 cities. Having exhausted his regular budget, Percy has poured his $30,000 senatorial salary and about...