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...Look both ways before crossing the street.” So goes the common traffic adage and so begins Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov??s 1931 opus, “The Golden Calf.” It’s simple enough to be disregarded as a joke, but its relevance permeates the story. With a perfect mesh of timeless wit and political metaphor, “The Golden Calf” is a comedic classic, the recent translation of which only serves to emphasize its timelessness...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Translation of a Soviet Touchstone | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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