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Braced for Invasion. Blocked internally, Stalin launched an international Communist propaganda crusade against the Yugoslavs. Dedijer, then serving as director of the Information Office, was amused by personal attacks on himself, but was appalled when a Soviet book accused his first wife, Olga, of having worked for the Gestapo. She had actually been a partisan surgeon who died in agony after a Nazi attack. Stalin cut off trade between East European countries and Yugoslavia. Railway and postal services were reduced or suspended. Stalin's paranoia was so inflamed that between 1949 and 1952 he put tens of thousands...
...play so freighted with meaning. What remains dazzling about Sartre is that he can turn a simple story of political intrigue into a lofty, if verbose, piece a these. Lucy Winslow as Hugo's frivolous wife Jessica stands in obvious juxtaposition to Dorothy Gilbert, the doctrinaire, disciplined party comrade Olga. They work very well as decorative comic factors in the play-its Nora Charles and its Ninotchka. And, in Hugo's great moments of choice, the two women become the primal forces between which Hugo must choose. Jessica is now Milton's Delilah, just as Olga is the hard-nosed...
Pasternak was ultimately cowed not so much by threats against him as by those against his great love Olga Ivinskaya, who was the model for Lara. He feared that she would be without protection if he left Russia, and those fears were borne out when she was imprisoned after his death. Solzhenitsyn, who served eight years in Stalin's prison camps, is unlikely to break in the face of threats to himself or his relations. "No one can block the road to truth," he has said. "In order to advance it, I am willing to accept even death...
Pirandello used to ponder the curious fate of the great playwright who, being mortal, changed and died, but whose characters were immutable and immortal. Witnessing great drama means spending an evening with these immortals. The Three Sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, who yearn in vain to go to Moscow, have a place in the minds and hearts of people who have never even seen the Chekhov play...
Nancy Cox (Olga), Susan Yakutis (Masha), Martin Andrucki (Vershinin), Deborah Holzel (Natasha), Daniel Seltzer (Doctor), Paul Shutt (Kulygin), and practically everyone else-all let their souls pour over the auditorium from time to time if not all the time. Lori Heineman as Irina and Andre Bishop as Andrei go even further than that, opening themselves up to let us see their entire nervous systems almost every second they are on stage. No matter how self-enclosed you are upon arrival at the Loeb during the next two weeks, you simply will not be able to pass up Heineman and Bishop...