Word: ivan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Final Parade. The heroes of Envy are exquisitely fashioned for the roles of victims. Nikolai Kavalerov and Ivan Babichev have become ne'er-do-wells who can barely breathe, let alone prosper, in the new Russia. Both are short and fat, broke and ludicrously dressed, and much too fond of beer. They are dreamers and, even worse, scoffers...
...engineer who never works at his profession, Kavalerov's pal Ivan has taken to haranguing crowds in beer halls, excoriating the regime for destroying human feelings. Picked up and questioned by the GPU, he proclaims: "I believe that many human feelings are scheduled for liquidation." The interrogator: "Such as?" Ivan: "Pity, tenderness, pride, jealousy, love-in a word, almost all the feelings of which the human soul was made up. I want to organize a final parade of those feelings." A fine state of mutual contempt exists between the subversive team of Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols...
...goes down to his defeat. Ivan dreams of a characteristic revenge: he has invented a supermachine. he says, that can do anything. In a flash, it could bring about the perfection of the new Utopia...
Gold, rather than purple, was Russia's royal color. Catherine the Great was married in a sylph-waisted, fairy-tale gown of spun gold embroidered with silver. When Ivan the Terrible broke the Tartar's grip on the Volga, he had the Crown of Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast...
...Died. Ivan Karaivanov, 71, Bulgarian-born, Moscow-trained international Communist agent who organized Iraq's Reds during World War II, sided with Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin rift, became a close Tito crony, a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party; of kidney and heart ailments; in Belgrade...