Word: gogol
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Great Russian writers are Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, Dostoievsky-products all of the first days when Russia dared declare herself artistically, when French frippery first seemed foolish and the longings of the Slavic soul important. Great Russian composers are Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Moussorgsky. They too with Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...
...three comrades, one big, one little male and one, Olga Tretlakova, lusty and white-toothed female with no waistline, used an invention for making boxes as the mechanism for laughing at inventions, manufacturers, the Soviet government, country life. And U. S. audiences laughed at humor in the style of Gogol as heartily as in the past they have laughed at humor in the style of Sennett...
...implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev, one by Gogol-all Russians. 'Would you dare,' I asked, 'oust any of them in favor of Dickens...
...Danby, "Nelson's Legacy"; M. Lucien Descaver, "The Colour of Paris"; Arthur Elson, "The Book of Musical Knowledge"; St. John G. Ervine, "Eight O'clock"; A. D. Ficke, "The Man on the Hilltop"; Carl R. Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead Souls"; Maxim Gorky, "My Childhood"; Ivan Goucharov, "Oblomov"; C. E. Gouldsbury, "Tiger Slayer by Order"; Harvard Club of Boston, "Year-Book, 1915-16"; Harvard Club of New York City, "Constitution, By-Laws, etc."; Lafcadio Hearn, "Interpretations of Literature," and "Japanese Lyrics"; Edwin B. Holt, "The Feudian Wish"; James Hunecker...
These courses are: In the Department of Slavic Languages-Russian 1b, Literature of the Nineteenth Century,- Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoi,- Composition, Mr. Wiener; and Polish 2b, Literature of the Nineteenth Century-Mickiewicz, Krasinski, Slowacki, Pol, Kalina, Sienkiewicz-Mr. Wiener. This last course is to be omitted in 1897-98. In the Department of Zoology, Course 9-Fossil Invertebrates, lectures and laboratory work, Dr. R. T. Fisher, is a new course. In the Department of Economics, Course 2 is to cover the whole of the nineteenth century instead of the last half only...