Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flowers, less than half of them native to France. There were scabiosa from the Caucasus, pink periwinkles from Madagascar, sow thistle from the Canary Islands, chrysanthemums and yellow jasmine from China, lilacs from western Asia, and even some California wild flowers collected by a Russian expedition, taken to St. Petersburg and eventually transplanted to Paris. Even in reproduction, no hotelkeeper had anything like...
...Factory. Isaac was born in Russia. But he did not go in lace and patent leather to one of Russia's prodigy factories, then on to famed Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, like Violinists Heifetz and Elman. The Stern family settled in San Francisco before Isaac's parents decided to make a violinist of him. Says Isaac: "They took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career...
...never-never land of spring training, optimism ran as high as hotel bills. From Havana to Santa Catalina everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
When baby-Jove Arkady descends on St. Petersburg to win his thunderbolts, he gets smacked around by as wild a gang of personalities as ever smudged the pages of a Russian novel. They range from desperate male & female aristocrats, struggling frenziedly to retain their power and money, to hordes of sly, ice-hard usurers, pimps and blackmailers. The never-ending battle between these two groups is fought out in luxurious palaces, in squalid lodging houses, and cafés filled with the thick stench of "burned meat, restaurant napkins, and tobacco...
...endlessly about European culture, Rousseau, God and Utopia -and then sadly reach for their revolvers and shoot themselves. Or they find themselves, as Arkady does, sucked in either by the commercials or the aristocrats, and bewailing the loss of their ideals. Among these lost ideals: the women of St. Petersburg, who fight with the savagery of harpies for marriage and security...