Word: gogol
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Such moments of interest occur at the expected points. Ben Artzi-Pelossof's trip to Auschwitz with Rabin, for example, allows her to relate some gripping stories of Holocaust survivors, such as Samuel Gogol, a harmonica player who was forced by the Nazis to play in a band in front of Jews being walked to the gas chambers--to this day, he instinctively closes his eyes whenever he plays the harmonica. And some of her domestic anecdotes about Rabin are simple and touching, like the time she and her grandfather were sharing a bed with an electric blanket...
Students described their theses to an audience of professors and other academics at Boylston Auditorium between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., and then watched a group of Russian language students perform excerpts from Gogol's play "The Inspector General...
Harvard students were joined by students from Wellesley and Wheaton Colleges to explain and describe their senior theses, which ranged from "Time and Narrative in Gogol" by Yvonne Saenger '96 to "Political Risk and Foreign Investment in Russia" by Sara Su Jones...
...TITLE OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S LIFE WITH AN IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance in the tale of an idiot named Vova (Lenin's nickname), who moves in with a hapless couple and destroys their lives, is, of course, purely intentional. Schnittke limns the moral and social breakdown of "I" and his "Wife" in a score of terrifying, eclectic intensity. The first-rate performance, recorded...
With a plot from Gogol and a play-within-a-play fiasco as funny as in Nicholas Nickleby, artistic director Daniel Sullivan and the actors of Seattle Repertory Theater hilariously send up censorship controversies, the regional- theater movement's fear of the National Endowment for the Arts and the widespread, pathetic dependence on A Christmas Carol as a holiday cash...