Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ivan the Terrible (Russian). Sergei Eisenstein's strained but fascinating attempt to create a visual equivalent of grand opera (TIME, April...
...Cream for Ivan. Poland was among the first nations to accept the Marshall Plan "in principle" last June, and the Communists, like other Poles, were disappointed when the Kremlin told them to reverse themselves and decline the invitation to the Paris conference. Ships flying the flags of 14 nations were in Gdynia the day I landed. But even Poland's ports are not entirely her own. The former German Swinemunde, now Swinoujscie, has thousands of Red fleet sailors. One of the few Polish sailors I saw there said sourly: "This is a Soviet base." Swinoujscie's ice-cream...
...Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, a lucid little novel, the hero is given a chance to find out. The story opens at the Kursk station in Moscow on a bright April day in 1902. Osokin, a young man of 26, is seeing Zinaida and her mother off to the Crimea. Zinaida is piqued with Ivan because he will not go with her, but he is too poor to go and too stiff to tell her the reason. The train leaves; Ivan is left alone; he feels for a moment as if the event had happened before. In the next...
...Ivan goes to a magician, tells him biterly of all the chances he has thrown away in his life. If he had only known beforehand the outcome of his actions, he says, he would not be such a failure. The magician laughs and tells him that nothing would be changed. Then, to Ivan's amazement, he offers to prove it by sending him back twelve years. He may relive his life, and may even remember at every stage-if he wants to-what the consequences will...
...Wheel. Ivan wakes up in the dormitory at school, where he proceeds to misbehave and get expelled, just as he did before. He hurts his mother, just as he did before. What had been his past is now his future; he knows it but he cannot avoid it. He gets into the same scrapes, has the same adventures with women. By the time he again meets Zinaida he has forgotten that he ever met her. The story repeats itself down to the last detail-until, once again, he finds himself visiting the magician. But when he reaches the point...