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Among the features of the new Advocate will be an article on the House Plan by Alva W. Sulloway '38 and an article on Pushkin by Jeffrey Fuller '38. The cause of Fiction will be championed by Abbot McC. Washburn, Jr. '37 and Harry M. Brown, Jr. '40, the latter sharing top honors for new talent with Theodore S. Amussen...
Everything he wrote in future was to be submitted not to the regular censor, but directly to the Tsar. What Pushkin did not understand was that the Tsar thought him too potentially useful to be imprisoned, too dangerous not to be watched. But until he discovered that he was not really free, Pushkin was overjoyed, dove into his old gay life with more zest than ever. He even got permission to visit St. Petersburg, gambled away 17,000 rubles in two months...
...then the hardened libertine fell in love-by his own count, for the 113th time. Natalya Goncharova's family was not nearly as good as Pushkin's; she had no dowry; she was 13 years younger than he; but she was a beauty. That was enough for Pushkin. After a long and arduous courtship, he married her. Natalya made him a decorative and submissive wife, presented him with several children. But she never returned his love, and though apparently she was technically faithful, her flirtatiousness nearly drove Pushkin wild. On her side, Natalya never understood or cared...
...Latest edition: The Poems, Prose and Plays of Pushkin (Random House, $3.50), an anthology by various translators, bitterly attacked by Critic Max Eastman for mistranslations, general inadequacy...
...Pushkin: Homage by Marxist Critics, Ed. by Irving D. W. Talmadge (Critics Group...