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Written by Dramatist. Mikhail Shatrov, Thus We Will Win uses Lenin's surreptitious visit to his Kremlin office several months before his death in January 1924 as the starting point for a three-hour flashback through the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Soviet audiences sit rapt as Actor Alexander Kalyagin, a startling Lenin lookalike, voices concern that Joseph Stalin, who succeeded him and later presided over the deaths of millions of suspected opponents, has "concentrated enormous power in his hands." The stage Lenin calls for more openness and democracy in the party. "There are three things I cherish...
...latest University police statistics, released for the week ending January 23, show that since July 1, there have been no homicides, one rapt, no sexual assaults, 22 assaults, 10 robberies, 231 thefts of more than $100 in value, 15 breaking and entering and 127 bike thefts reported...
...size, shape and texture of a bowling ball, has called for a volunteer to demonstrate the power. After a moment, a rugged fellow in his 30s agrees to participate. "Think of something specific and personal," says the lecturer. The younger man agrees and the two men stare ahead, rapt in concentration. But something is wrong. As the young man narrows his gaze, the lecturer shows signs of agitation, of discomfort, of pain, agony-sploooosh! The bowling-ball head explodes, the meeting ends in panic, and the young man-who we now realize is a renegade scanner-vaults...
...essence of these worlds, their "inner weave," lies in their details. "One should notice and fondle details," he says. "There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected." The bulk of these lectures consists of rapt, minute scrutiny of such trifles. Nabokov does a virtual time-and-motion study of the daylong "dance of fate" between Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. He reads volumes into Flaubert's use of the word and in Madame Bovary. Under his microscope, the "flushed...
...months. In the process, of course, he resuscitated some remarkably anachronistic ideas about women in business. Having thus cleared the air, Agee then settled back to observe the American business community set aside its minor woes (a plunging stock market, a Middle East war) to concentrate in rapt fascination on the matter of Agee and Cunningham. Does he wonder where it all went wrong...