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...upon the reading. '55 was quite impressed with the lengthy list of classics which makes up the reading: students found it interesting as well as very necessary. The average time spent on the assigned works was 5 to 6 hours weekly. Most popular among the books were "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Red and the Black," "The Republic," and the plays of Sophocles, Shaw, and Shakespeare. On the other hand, '55 little enjoyed the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, while many disliked Pascal and Nietzsche. Generally students leaned towards the drama and the novel and, occasionally, toward philosophy, in their likes...
...Second Coming is an ambitious subject for a novel. Dostoevsky touched on the idea in the Grand Inquisitor scene of The Brothers Karamazov. But it probably cannot be done in Author Borden's smoothly elegant manner, punctuated in startling places by punchy little colloquialisms-rather as though a piece of second-rate Henry James had been edited by Red Smith...
...upon the reading. '55 was quite impressed with the lengthy list of classics which makes up the reading: students found it interesting as well as very necessary. The average time spent on the assigned works was 5 to 6 hours weekly. Most popular among the books were "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Red and the Black," "The Republic," and the plays of Sophocles, Shaw, and Shakespeare. On the other hand, '55 little enjoyed the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, while many disliked Pascal and Nietzsche. Generally students leaned towards the drama and the novel and, occasionally, toward philosophy, in their likes...
...with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great shocker of the 19th Century, all his books together would not match one Brothers Karamazov. That the comparison should even come to mind, however, suggests its inevitability. Graham Greene, like Dostoevsky, is primarily and passionately concerned with Good & Evil. There are not many competitors in that field...
...Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky (June 30, 1912): "Chronic hysteria pervades the whole lot [of characters] from the point of view of the Western person...