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...union boss, with all the techniques of a two-bit demagogue. Ivan Light came hurtling out of the audience (Lefty is a simulated union meeting) with an inspired outburst against company spies. But of the characters who had to think, to weigh the decisions in their lives, only Gloria Pasternak and Edwin Holstein filled their scene with meaning...
...whom complained that they had bought tickets only after some arm-twisting from the President himself. The President made a small speech, saying that "art knows no national boundaries," since Jack London, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are read in the Soviet Union, while Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pasternak are read in the U.S. While the whole affair was a financial success, it was a cultural flop, especially for those in the National Armory. The acoustics were so bad, the atmosphere so close and the program so poor that nearly half of the audience walked out before...
Back in Moscow in 1892, he was asked to help turn out illustrations of a deluxe edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace. The Pasternak family became intimate friends of the Tolstoys, frequently visiting Yasnaya Polyana, the novelist's country estate near Tula. Pasternak made some memorable sketches of Tolstoy working with a scythe in the wheat fields...
...Wounded Soldier. In the 20 years before World War I, Pasternak developed into one of the most representative of Russian artists, painting in the typical Russian palette, which tends to emphasize a sort of oriental drug coloring of dusty blues and darkish reds. The 26 oil, tempera and watercolor paintings in the Munich show demonstrate that, though influenced by the early impressionists, his style could scarcely be called modern. He scorned his fellow Russian, Kandinsky, the first major abstractionist. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Pasternak drew a war poster showing a wounded soldier, which became immensely...
...Pasternak's political beliefs were ambiguous. After he and his wife and two daughters left Russia in 1921, leaving Boris and his brother Alexander behind, he never again saw Russia. In Berlin he became a success all over again, was able to collect a sociable circle of intellectuals and almost re-create the happy prewar Moscow days. Yet shortly before the Nazis took over Germany, Pasternak tried to return to Russia, could not get in, went to England instead. He spent the war years as a sick and half-forgotten man, still hoping to go back to Russia...