Word: ivan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other of Dostoevsky's characters are similarly transformed. Ivan, the tormented intellectual of the novel, becomes an easy atheist in the movie and finds God and the true faith on the witness stand, when brought to testify against his brother: he is not the man who could have composed the masterful "Grand Inquisitor" or struggled with the devil himself near the close of the novel. The precariously saintly Alexey Karamazov is transformed into a sort of religious straight man, whose feeble pietisms and meaningful stares represent the religious instruction of the movie, and the idiot Smerdyakov becomes a shrewd, calculating...
Guards stood watch every 50 yards along his road to the city, and lined up two deep the second day as he laid a wreath on the Soviet war memorial. Also on hand, though unannounced in any list of the Soviet delegation, was Colonel General Ivan Serov, the Soviet secret police boss who was returning to the scene of his crime. It was he who had treacherously arrested General Pal Maleter, hero of the 1956 Budapest rising, as Maleter parleyed with Red army officers...
...chairman of the state bank, the very post he held 20 years ago when B. and K. were not yet a junketing, summit-going team but only a cloth-capped pair of commissars. He now ranks 44th in the roster of 45, just after Police Chief Ivan Serov and well below such eminences as Minister of Bakery Products Leonid Korniets...
...Died. Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, 56, U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Japan, former Deputy Premier and onetime Minister of the Metallurgical Industry...
...Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line has changed. Last week Czechoslovakia's table-tennis champion, Ivan Andreadis, was "temporarily disqualified" from the national team for "unsporting behavior." His bourgeois crime: Ivan "forgot" to report a large hunk of his earnings...