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...though, Egyptians are more likely to revile than revere him. Symbolic of the change in attitude is an increasing number of Egyptian books, articles and speeches that have cast Nasser in the guise of a latter-day Ivan the Terrible, guilty of misrule and injustices...
...Ivan the Terrible, who suffered from insomnia and, perhaps, a bad conscience, kept three blind old men to tell him fairy stories during the long nights in the Kremlin palace. For at least seven centuries in Russia, czars, noblemen, merchants and peasants sought diversion in the wondrous skazki, the folk tales told by itinerant bards who passed on their treasure from generation to generation...
William James [affectionately known as Billy Jim to regulars] - Assuming that you can get into the building to begin with--the main doors are located in such a position that Ivan the Terrible would have trouble opening them on a windy day--the major drawback here is that you get the sneaking suspicion you are always being watched. Sort of like a rat in a cage, if you know what I mean...
...presented "The Fireman's Ball (1967) by Milos Forman and "A Boring Afternoon" (1965) by Ivan Passer...
...pioneer was told he was barred from travel because of his knowledge of state secrets, but more probably it was because of his crusade for civil liberties in the U.S.S.R. Sakharov's distinguished predecessors, Authors Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), were denied visas when they won Nobel Prizes for Literature...