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...Over, which shares with current releases The Nylon Curtain by Billy Joel and Nebraska by Bruce Springstcer an emphasis on the lunacy and pathos of daily American life. In "work song," strong vocals power an emotionless ballad which is somehow Russian-flavored, evoking the Brothers Karamazov singing capitalist work hymns. The music is effective and lively, the repeated lyrics "I've got a quite important job with many things to do my stenographer is pretty and my wallpaper is new" come across with just the right amount of subdued pride to make "work song" an appropriate response to employed America...
...last. Nabokov accuses him of sloppy and melodramatic Christianity, reactionary slavophilism (which Nabokov links with both Fascism and Communism), lack of artistic sense or taste, and a hackneyed, long-winded style. He doesn't have much to say about the works themselves, and, in fact, Nabokov ignores The Brothers Karamazov altogether. When, in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov kills an old woman "for some reason or other," Nabokov asks, "Who cares?" He passes off all Dostoevsky's characters as either neurotic or insane, the stuff of "pseudo-literature...
...spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said to have broken into a cold sweat at the sight of one. In his childhood, Smerdyakov, in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, was fond of hanging them. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray wrote poems to them; Hemingway shared dinner with his. Physician and Scholar Albert Schweitzer favored two ways to take refuge from human misery: playing the organ and delighting in the play of his cats...
...Brothers Karamazov. Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov give Daddy a surprise Father's Day party...
...Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov...