Word: gogol
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...Poznan headquarters I was turned over to a character right out of Gogol-a middleaged, dark-bearded gentleman in the uniform of a Polish major, nine medals (not ribbons, medals) on his chest. His name was Vinokurov-a distinctly Russian name, but he agreed to speak Russian to me only when it became clear that conversation in Polish was quite impossible. The Major was scrupulously polite. I showed him my passport, Russian zonal permit, car registration, driver's license, etc. All were in order, but the Major went on to other questions: How was it that I spoke Russian...
...Kentucky is a first-rate comic idea, but it requires a comic genius as great as Gogol's to handle it adequately. Ex-Navy Lieut. Jesse Stuart (Taps for Private Tussie, etc.) is no Gogol. But he knows Kentucky hill life inside out (he is a native son). His ability to turn what he knows into corn-fattened pathos and good-natured farce makes Foretaste of Glory a very likable book...
...writers of Agitka - the journalist-artists. One of the best of them, probably the most typical, is Konstantin Simonov. The most promising seems to be Boris Garbatov, author of the record-breaking bestseller, The Unvanquished. He has apparently been much influenced by translations of Hemingway and by Gogol...
...English, assisted by Francis O. Matthiesson '27, professor of History and Literature, Jean-Joseph Sezuce, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Cesar L. Barber '35, instructor in History and Literature, and Finley. The course will include reading of the representative works of Aristophanes, Plautus, Jonson, Shakespeare, Mollere, Gogol, and Shaw...
Meanwhile the British radio reports that the Nazis have sacked Gogol's birthplace in Sorotchinsky, Russia (several months ago they were reported to have destroyed Tolstoy's home at Yasnaya Polyana). The house, a Gogol museum for many years, was wrecked, valuable books and statues destroyed. Townspeople who protested were machine-gunned...