Word: pasternaks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HOSIASSON, SCHUMACHER, SERPAN-Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th. Three European painters work in a rich variety of oils. Philippe Hosiasson, Russian-born cousin of the late Boris Pasternak, carves wavy landscapes out of creamy colors. Germany's Emil Schumacher produces scarred and wounded figures from mixed media that resembles dried clay and hardened lava. Iaroslav Serpan, a Yugoslav teaching at the Sorbonne, swishes up a storm of spiny black lines in a sea of gentle blues and greens. Through...
...unadorned beauty-these things were ours," wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. "But the small problems of practical life-things like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara's fictional fate was prophetic. In 1960, after Pasternak himself died, So viet...
...apartment on Moscow's Potapov Street had been turned over to strangers, she was even dependent on the state for new quarters. But the small problems of practical life were no more for Olga than they had been for Lara. She spent her first day in Moscow at Pasternak's grave...
Because the conservative sponsors of the New York festival offer no prizes, horse trading and razzmatazz are minimal. Opening night was a sober, even stately occasion, geared to the Slavic measures of Hamlet, Soviet Director Kozintsev's 21-hour epic in collaboration with Pasternak, Shostakovich and Shakespeare. Some viewers were enthralled, some appalled by the brooding, glacial, quasi-operatic doings at Elsinore, which at times seemed haunted by the ghost of Boris Godunov...
Like Boris Pasternak, Poet Joseph Brodsky was such an abstainer. A softspoken, red-haired Jewish youth who lived in Leningrad, he chose not to join a writers' union, refused to serve on editorial boards, earned his living as a stoker, a metalworker, or occasionally as a laborer on geological expeditions. Meanwhile, he wrote poetry for his own enjoyment and that of his friends, among them some of Russia's best-known literary lights...