Word: onegin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leningrad the Davieses sat in the same Great Opera Theatre as did the Tsars & Tsarinas. They even saw the same typically Capitalist sort of opera, namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...
That Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin have never seen cause to suppress Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin or even excessively bourgeois Madame Butterfly goes far to explain how Soviet Russia is now managing to like supercapitalistic Mr. & Mrs. Davies and support quietly a growing bureaucracy of Babbitt Bolsheviks...
...without his recall. He passed his days as usual, kept in duelling trim by shooting patterns on his bedroom wall with wax bullets, by twirling a heavy iron cane wherever he went, to strengthen his trigger hand. And he wrote verse: pornographic, blasphemous, lyric, political, and his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse form. Once, as a punishment for some escapade, Pushkin was sent off to inspect a locust-ravaged district, write a report on conditions there. He wrote two. The unofficial...
Pushkin's verse novel "Evgeni Onegin," basis of an opera by Tchaikowsky, is shown in its rare original form a series of tiny volumes, published during 1825-32 in parts. The first complete edition of "Onegin," published within paper covers in 1833, is also exhibited...
...arguments arose all over the U. S. concerning an artist's unwritten obligations (TIME, Jan. 22). Texans called Thomas a poor sport, sympathized with Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald who had been unable to meet her contract. After the Thomas episode Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Contralto Sigrid Onegin refused to go to Dallas...