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...encourage resistance during World War II, Russia's present leaders have encouraged it to open up the way for a renewed appreciation of Russia's past glories. During the summer, to the delight of Russian and foreign tourists alike, many of the old wooden churches and onion-domed cathedrals that dot the Soviet countryside were opened to the public. The result was an artistic revelation...
...church was built by a local craftsman named Nestor in 1714. The master builder used not a single nail, but so precisely slotted the beams and joists that the structure has stood without reinforcement for 250 years. Upon the traditional octagonal shape, he laid an exuberance of cupolas and onion-shaped domes. The result was a wondrous aberration, a unique folk image of what a house of God should look like. The legend goes that, upon its completion, Nestor declared: "There never has been, is, or ever will be another church like this." So saying, he flung his ax into...
...Transfiguration. In its dome can be seen the divergence of the Russian from the Byzantine model. Finding Byzantium's semispherical dome ill-suited to the heavy snow of the north, the church's original architect replaced it with a bulbous cupola, which eventually developed into the characteristic onion shape. Russian architecture was on its way to finding its own style...
...offering, like a Parisian épicerie, small, spicy dabs of this and that so that the whole, though piquant, is rarely filling. In one sense, Sanche de Gramont writes in the same vein. Tidbits of throwaway intelligence pop to the surface of his book like croutons in a steaming onion soup. The word bourgeois first appeared (as burgensis) in a 1007 charter establishing the free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign Ministry spends $4,000,000 annually in secret...
...Democrats, Kurt Kiesinger's party, and as a president critic of Kiesinger, who took the Chancellorship with a Nazi past, Grass is acting as citizen and not as writer. He has not, however, thrown over his writing desk. The same man who wrote about the "bourgeois smug" and the Onion Cellar in The Tin Drum and about Germany's "economic miracle" and the meal worms in Dog Years is at work in these speeches. Even in the midst of the political area, he can't refrain from telling an occasional story-though quite consciously-for he is always aware that...