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Meanwhile Khrushchev, on a tour of Byelorussia, told hog farmers that he was "not here to read Pushkin's poems. You will read poems without me. I came to expose shortcomings." To dairy farmers, the peasant Premier proposed a taste test to decide between his recommendation for high protein cattle feed (sugar beets, peas) or simple hay, which some scientists favor. Khrushchev, who obviously can afford more liberalism toward cattle than toward comrades, suggested that the cows decide. Said he: "Well now, Burenushka [Bossy], what fodder do you vote...
...called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another Oscar. In a non-Shakespearean epic called The Tempest, he transformed eleven words of Pushkin ("The rebels rushed up to us and ran into the fortress") into a $600,000 cavalry charge. He made one bad mistake (at least financially) when he refused to produce Fellini's La Dolce Vita. De Laurentiis says that Fellini would not eliminate the murder of two children...
...mama is off at her job flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully one-third of his reader is unadulterated literature-poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov, old Russian fables and seven assorted stories and anecdotes by Leo Tolstoy, including his Russian version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
Gromyko: Sophistry. Gromyko listened stonily to Kennedy-except for a thin smile at a Kennedy gibe comparing Khrushchev's wall building in Berlin to the Czar's orders in Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Next day, in his reply, Gromyko used a tone that was-by Russian standards-moderate, particularly on Berlin. But there was little in his words be yond a recital of well-known Soviet points: Russia will not accept a treaty to end nuclear tests, said Gromyko, for the whole matter should be tied in with (and, presumably, stalled by) the tangled question of overall...
...sense, the igth century was Russia's Renaissance. Until then, Russian literature had been of little consequence, but 19th century Russia showered on the world a wealth of literary greatness such as few centuries anywhere have equaled and none have surpassed. In an epoch that produced Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov, it is not surprising that some valuable authors were virtually overlooked by the West. One of these, almost unknown to American readers, is Nikolai Leskov (1831-95), whose output of novels, stories, memoirs and articles filled a posthumous edition of 36 volumes...