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...Life," says one of Vladimir Nabokov's characters, "makes a constant attempt to prove it is real." Russian-born Author Nabokov prefers to believe it is not. For him, real life ended with a bang in the 1917 Revolution. Ever since then he has quietly taken refuge in an elegant, ironic domain of private jokes and personal fantasies. Lolita made him famous because the private joke was also a public one that millions found appalling or appealing. His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play...
Died. Boris Nicolaevsky, 78, renowned Kremlinologist, a Russian-born Social Democrat who in 1940, after 18 years of exile in Europe following expulsion by the Bolsheviks, arrived in the U.S. to write more than a dozen works on Soviet life, such as Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), for which he and Co-Author David J. Dallin were denounced in the U.N. as "idiots or gangsters" by the late Andrei Vishinsky; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif...
...momentary fall from the relentless exuberance that made him appear as an outsized (6 ft. 1 in.) Teddy Roosevelt at costume parties, decide at one point to give up sleeping on Monday nights, and put chips on almost every number when playing roulette. "Live expensively!" advised his father, a Russian-born immigrant who became a multimillionaire in silent films. "Throw it around! Give it away! Always remember to live beyond your means. It gives a man confidence...
...RUSSIAN ART SONGS (Vanguard). The soprano is Russian-born Netania Devrath, whose pure and sunlit voice is best suited to songs of springtime and skylarks by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff; but also it can be darkened with sorrow, as in Tchaikovsky's laments (Was I Not a Blade of Grass; To Forget So Soon...
...ripe age of 77, Marc Chagall last week became a doctor - of fine arts. At his honorary hooding at the University of Notre Dame, the Russian-born artist who has painted cows jumping over the moon and orbited lovers, flowers and folklore, Chagall had a few words for U.S. academics...