Word: firewarden
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Assiduously pumped by a Russian-born pianist and writer, Victor Ilyich Seroff, Aunt Nadejda tells all. The result, Shostakovich's first full-length biography (Dmitri Shostakovich by Victor Ilyich Seroff; Knopf; $3), shows its subject to be not only a bespectacled firewarden and heroic musical panegyrist of embattled Russia, but an engaging human being who might have stepped out of the pages of a Chekhov family drama...
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