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...could answer that question, I would definitely add a bestseller to my resume. In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy equated modern urban life to “the example of a stone falling downwards with increasing velocity.” Bureaucratic jobs, endless soirées and “proper” marriages to fill our social roles, applicable to 19th century Moscow or Cambridge tomorrow. A tragic mirage that entails hypocrisy, emptiness, and cocktail parties...
...conductor Dr. James Yannatos, Harvard’s orchestra proved a fine match for Jackiw, executing a moving performance of the “Prelude and Liebestod” from Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” and of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4” in addition to the Brahms concerto. In many ways, it was the orchestra rather than Jackiw that stole the show, with their tactful, elaborate construction of the three pieces. HRO President Chrix E. Finne ’07 introduced the orchestra...
...figure of Soviet veneration, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is ahead of Samantha Smith, but the gap may be narrowing. Since her death in a 1985 plane crash, the name of the Maine schoolgirl, who visited the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov, has been affixed to a Siberian diamond, a hybrid violet developed in Lithuania, a street in Yalta and a five-kopeck postage stamp. The homage reached new heights last week with the dedication of Mount Samantha Smith, a 13,000-ft. peak in the central Caucasus just north of the Turkish...
...first football game between Harvard and Yale took place when Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a five-year old pre-schooler and the Science Center probably referred to a collection of Bunsen burners somewhere in the basement of Sever Hall. The 1875 competition--which was in reality more a rugby match than anything else--was actually not the beginning of the Harvard-Yale rivalry. That had begun more than two decades earlier with crew. No helmets or equipment were worn--the teams wore hats, knickers and britches for uniforms. The game...
...VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN A great person may be bad as well as good. Lenin, whose use of power in the Soviet Union, which he created and whose influence in the wider world was wholly for the bad, is undoubtedly the century's dominant figure. The ideas of Karl Marx were of little more than philosophical importance until 1917, when Lenin applied those ideas with revolutionary force and established the Bolshevik Party throughout the government. Bolshevik Russia became an example to Marxist revolutionaries everywhere and energized nationalist reactionaries, of whom the most important was Adolf Hitler. Hitler's ideological...