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...stop at Zurich's Kloten Airport and Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned that his archives, which he needs...
...DIMITRI PANIN...
...author of this letter is "Dimitri Sologdin," one of the heroes of The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn, who served in the same Soviet camps and prisons with him from...
...seems to live by his own view that the conductor is seen, but the timpanist is heard. Mengelberg? "Very quirky and picky. He would rearrange the orchestra when he guest-conducted and put the percussion all the way in front, and then complain that the brasses were too loud." Dimitri Mitropoulos? "He did some very exciting things, but he let the Philharmonic deteriorate...
...Aquarius was a professional who would always try to give the customers their money's worth and then some. If many of the metaphors in Of a Fire on the Moon seemed familiar, if Aquarius often strained for effect and struck false resonances until he reminded one of Dimitri Tiomkin's movie music, there was still much to admire and enjoy. The description of the prelaunch press conference was perfection. There was Von Braun, completely at ease with his Hitler past, translating the question of a German reporter and then bringing the house down by apologizing...