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...Borises must live with the towering memory of Feodor Chaliapin, who brought Mussorgsky's masterpiece out of Russia and, until his death in 1938, was always considered the best Boris. Since then, Chaliapin's Boris (anguished and anguishing) has been as intimidating...
...drawings, all done with a swinging and resonant network of strokes, were portraits of some of the chief figures of Russia's pre-Revolution Parnassus-Sergei Rachmaninoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy-all close friends of the artist. There was a startling psychological study of Lenin, done in 1921, which captures his aggressive intelligence. From Pasternak's later period in Berlin there was a sketch of a dark-haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing...
Creativity, one of man's highest qualities, is one of the least understood. It is not sheer volume of work or novelty of expression; it is not always virtuous. Creativity is what Feodor Dostoevsky had: a tremendous capacity for sustained, self-motivated work-despite an untidy outer life that included epilepsy, compulsive gambling and enough hardships to stun Job. But few teachers can recognize creativity in children or tolerate it when they do. The child who paints pretty pictures or whizzes through the IQ test is called "gifted." The one who plants an ingenious stink bomb in the teachers...
...polyglot world of U.S. music, Russian singers have always been in short supply. It is nearly a quarter-century since Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin sang his last Manhattan recital. Last week the first Soviet singer to appear in the U.S. since World War II arrived in Manhattan to launch a six-week cross-country tour. Her name: Zara Doloukhanova...
When M-G-M Producer Pandro Berman decided to film Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, he thought wistfully of blonde Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who has often confessed a yen to play the role of Grushenka. "Frankly, I don't expect her to be in it," he said. "She would probably want too much money, and besides, I hear she is going to have a baby.'' To all questions of diapers and Dostoevsky, Marilyn murmured unsweetened nothings...