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...like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Literature Goes West | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...wife, whose single braid dangles two feet below the point of her kerchief. Also a daughter, her rosy face alight with mischief, and two dogs nearly as white as the snow. The man has the look of a lighthouse keeper whose island of solitude is being turned into a marina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sweet Scene in Sarajevo | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Dennis Wilson, 39, boisterous, handsome drummer, keyboardist and singer of California's enduring rock-'n'-roll band the Beach Boys; of accidental drowning when he dived off a boat slip into 12 ft. of water; in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Wilson, the Beach Boys' only genuine surfer, named the upbeat, harmonizing quintet that since 1961 has glorified the sea, the sun, teen love and cars in such hits as Good Vibrations, California Girls and Surfin' U.S.A. Although Wilson often feuded with other group members, he was on board for the satisfying moment last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 9, 1984 | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...agent comes Oswald-the-FBI-agent. It is known that Oswald was in contact with the FBI. His notebook had the name, phone number, and license number for agent James Hosty. The Bureau says that Hosty had the duty of investigating Oswald and his Russian wife Marina to see if they were hard-core Marxists. Just before the assassination, Oswald sent Hosty a threatening note, which Hosty or someone else ordered destroyed. According to the FBI, the note only expressed anger over the harassment of Marina Oswald. Hosty, according to the Dallas Police Department, telephoned less than two hours after...

Author: By Paul T. Evans, | Title: Who Shot the President? | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...Earl Jones, a stunning figure with fine diction, but his manner is too rigidly classical and neither dramatic nor human. Sandra Shipley as Thaisa plays her role with quiet understanding and control. With only a few lines, she surmounts Pericles as the family's core. Jeannie Affelder '83 as Marina speaks and moves with soulless uniformity, relieved only by her song, which is sweet and sonorous. Other high points include Paul Redford '81 as the gregarious and amusing buffoon king, Simonides, Sindri Anderson as the turned-evil Dionyza, and Brian McCue '80 in a grab-bag of roles...

Author: By Webster A. Stone, | Title: Beyond Interpretation | 10/21/1983 | See Source »

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