Word: dostoevski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concentrators find it much more, than a difficult language study, though. The general examination tests mainly a knowledge of Russian literature, with emphasis on the better-known writers--Tolstoi, Dostoevski, Pushkin. Theses, required only of honors candidates, generally are written on similar topics...
...private, grades or college, is epitomized by Utopianism (your excellent example, UNism). Even our educators are beginning to admit our educational system is goalless, its fruits: nationalism and relativism, and this dream belief in "the perfectibility of man," quickly shattered by the evidence of our senses. The principles of Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor are gratefully accepted-just give us bread, and never mind freedom and responsibility...
...took a stack of books along on their honeymoon, made her read Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Dostoevski. She took a U.C.L.A. correspondence course in economics and English literature, tackled War and Peace, The Magic Mountain ("I thought I'd never finish that damn book") and Das Kapital ("Ever since then," says a friend, "she has been spelling capital with...