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...parodying wit, Nabokov once said: "I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better-balanced mad mind than mine." It was the mind of an exile imprisoned in memories of a culture swept away by revolution and war. Born April 23, 1899, into an intellectual, upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father...
...black movement to bring its just grievances before the American public. Southern editors vividly recall that in the 1950s and 1960s there was heavy public pressure to limit coverage of black demonstrations on the ground that such publicity stirred up more trouble. Recalls Eugene Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg Times: "A large number of readers wrote to tell newspapers that if they quit covering King, he would go away." But the press continued to report the demonstrations, which helped Young, King and others to achieve substantial strides toward equality...
When in February, 1874, Mussorgsky was encouraged to write a piece describing some art works appearing as a collection in St. Petersburg, "Pictures at an Exhibition," for piano, was the result. The work, which Debussy said "will leave an indelible impression," appears more often in Ravel's transcription for orchestra...
...really all that much different at Harvard than it is any place else. While guys like Yastrzemski and Munson were poling the ball around at places like Winter Haven and St. Petersburg yesterday, guys like Joyce and Singleton were going through the rounds down at Briggs Cage...
...comes first. In the stage version the voice of Tolstoy has been fleshed out as a narrator who in the opening minutes of the play, introduces the characters and soliloquizes on the main themes. And don't worry that the vision of Napoleon's troops setting fire to St. Petersburg as the Russian troops fight and die in the snow will break the back of even the Loeb's large space and advanced technical equipment. Ayrton has been conducting a production seminar for the entire cast in order to prevent any catastrophes. With this class and the expertise of professionals...