Word: dostoevskian
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...Americans, whose politics are less Dostoevskian, these charges may seem excessive. It .is as if President Truman were to rewrite all U.S. history books, claiming for himself full credit for the victories on the Western Front in 1918 and for the establishment of the League of Nations against the traitorous interference of General Pershing and Woodrow Wilson. Nevertheless, Trotsky's charges, if more coherent, are scarcely more excessive than those made against him and his comrades by Stalin and the Communist Party during the Purge trials...
...headliner reduced to the want-ad columns, a sort of daftly faithful hound for the heroines, this wonderful clown does little that is new except find his long-lost son, in the picture's funniest shot. But when, leering fiercely, he sings Inka Dinka Doo, or when, in hyper-Dostoevskian mental conflict, he confides Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted to Go, he gives pleasure of an intensity roughly equivalent to saturation bombing. Jimmy Durante remains living proof that demonic energy can be used for something better than breaking civilizations...
After some dandyism, café girls and card-playing, rediscovered God in The Masses. Active in 1905-07 Revolution. Jailed three months with seven revolutionists condemned to death; learned much. In Dostoevskian-Marxian appetite for poverty lived among the lowliest in Odessa...
Altogether the volume is an uncommonly interesting psychological document: touching, somehow admirable case history of an international vagabond, a semi-Dostoevskian, a naïve sophisticate and speculative researcher. It is also a huge chunk of undercured, surprisingly palatable ham. The author is nobody's fool, except perhaps (as he freely grants...
...Fish and A Child of Our Time. These had given him a European reputation as one of the most gifted German writers of his generation. That reputation was confirmed by most U. S. critics last February with the English translation of The Age of the Fish, a poetic, Dostoevskian Goodbye, Mr. Chips, in which a young German schoolmaster discovers the maggots in Nazi morality...