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...czarist Russia makes a great backdrop for absurd humor because the ghost of Dostoevsky and his philosophic pals allows Allen to capitalize on the incongruity of ancient questions and modern options ("Moses was right. The good man shall dwell in the House of the Lord for six months with an option...
...concludes Boris. It is this kind of syllogism that moves him to assassinate Napoleon, an adventure that ends, of course, with the wrong man slain. No matter. A celestial sign appears and Boris trills: "I will run, not walk through the valley of the shadow of death. . . I will dwell in the house of the Lord for six months with an option...
...ponderousness of the material. The sense of struggle that usually accompanies a performance of such a difficult piece was all but lost as Chang dashed through scale passages and tossed off finger-breaking double stops with remarkable case. He didn't display a particularly rich, sweet tone or dwell on dramatic musical events, but his performance was thoughtfully conceived and carried out with such energy that the audience was swept headlong over the dross...
Truth and Beauty. A glum view of life at The New Yorker! Gill does not dwell on this paradox, but it is not hard to explain. Ross, Shawn and the rest have successfully set up as taste makers over a 50-year period when cultural presumptions have changed horrendously. The New Yorker remains a throwback to Matthew Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work...
...fact, Zoya never married. After Victoria's birth, she was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 25 years for espionage because of her relationship with the American officer. Her baby girl was sent to live with an aunt in remote Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Although Zoya now declines to dwell on her ordeal, she is well remembered by another ex-inmate of Stalin's prisons and camps, Alexander Dolgun, who now lives in Maryland. A former U.S. embassy clerk who was kidnaped by the Soviet secret police in 1948 and freed only in 1956, Dolgun spent years...