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...most responsible for Beatty's success is Coach Mihail Igloi, 53, who defected to the U.S. in 1956 from his job as head coach of the Hungarian Olympic track and field squad. Says Igloi, whose runners have broken 25 world records, 48 Hungarian records and 23 American records: "Any country I can make good runner-Japan, Germany, United States-as long as I have a free hand and somebody with a little background. If I have 30,000 bricks, I can build a small house or a beautiful palace. It depends on how I put them together...
TALES OF WAR (140 pp.) - Mihail Sadoveanu - Twayne...
EVENING TALES (374 pp.) - Mihail Sadoveanu - Twayne...
...Iron Curtain authors share -or can afford to indulge- the Poles' ob session with political commentary. Mihail Sadoveanu, the son of an illiterate Ruma nian peasant, somehow learned to write, and from 1904 until his death last year turned out 120 books, became one of his country's most famous authors. He was in no sense an apolitical artist - in fact, he served as president of the first Presidium when the Russians forcibly converted Rumania to Communism in 1947 (which helps explain why translations of his work are now offered as the first fruit of a new cultural...
There is an occasional small masterpiece like Mihail Prishvin's His First Point, a wonderfully funny dog story, but most of the tales have the upbeat endings and moral preachments common to slick magazine fiction in the U.S. At their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein...