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...outward, and began to become aware of "the beautiful ... world of real people." At the same time, the young Yevtushenko was deeply imbued with "the romantic ideals of the workers and soldiers who stormed the Winter Palace in 1917," and looked upon the world "with a revolutionary's scornful gaze...
...realism from which it drew sustenance until sentimentality deluged the land in Victoria's day. But back of Hogarth's raw dramas was a tender man. No one who did not love children could have painted a little girl, with her plump red cheeks and faintly wistful gaze, so appealingly...
Under the gaze of 1.500 spectators, the match began in a theater across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. Botvinnik won the first game, and Petrosyan was afraid the champion would seize the psychological advantage. Petrosyan shifted tactics. "When he expected me to be warlike, I played as if nothing had happened." By the end of the fifth game, it was all tied up, 2½-2½*and both men showed the strain...
...parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...
Though cruelly maimed in mind and body, Peter survived and laid a curse upon Hannah before exiling himself to New York: she was never, from that moment, to leave Gaze Castle. The curse tethers Hannah on a chain of neurosis, and she accepts its terms. As her lover watches her from afar with binoculars, she mournfully prowls the grounds of Gaze. Every living soul at Gaze Castle wallows vicariously in her entrapped shame...