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...Moscow. Capital or fortress, Stalin loved this city. He was Georgian born and his accent is still thick, but he had done much for Moscow; he had come to think of himself as a native Muscovite. He was not a sentimental man; he would not cry over the white city's antiquities, Imperial Russia's Golden Head, the 40-times-40 spires. But he would brood if anything happened to the parachute tower in the Park of Culture and Rest. He would be angry when the new buildings, neither garishly cubist nor grotesquely baroque because he personally...
Only Joseph Stalin could have ordered this removal. As he did so he must have remembered Nikolai Lenin's praise of his article in 1905 on governing minorities, the first time he used the signature J. Stalin: "We have here a wonderful Georgian." Nor could he forget Lenin's final repudiation of him as too "crude and narrow-minded" four months before Lenin's death. But gradually he had created a new Lenin of his own, a legend to be his own backdrop. He could afford in 1939 to be one of the sad-faced bearers...
Behind this image he would see himself as he once was, when he was the terror of Tiflis-the face harder, no fat on it; the hair black, unkempt; the mouth more defiant. Those were the days when he, a rude Georgian lad, had, by touching Russian dirt and blood, become Russia itself...
Last week pubs and restaurants were crowded to capacity; foresighted people went early or made reservations. Social events included two lectures, "The Georgian Country Home" and "Six Centuries of Tun Huang." The Michaelmas term divorce list hit 2,000. Two million women had been registered, but only 575,463 interviewed, for war work. Parents had reclaimed 190,000 evacuated children. Fire watching was a nationwide must, but in some areas appeals for exemption ranged up to 90%. Air Marshal Portal traded his Humber for a big, black Packard...
Tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of the Yard stands the University's traditional maid-of-all-work, Holden Chapel. This small, rectangular structure of pure Georgian architecture has been the scene, during its 200-odd years of existence, of the birth of the Medical School, the near-death of Harvard's greatest President, and midnight raids by students seeking decorations for their rooms among the specimens in the anatomical museum...