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...good to say that this is Stalinism, just Stalinism, all over again," he added. "Fifteen years ago, they would have been brought before a board of the secret police and been sent to Siberia or shot. The trial they had was public and what was said there is common knowledge by now among the intelligentsia...
...feuds were epic. The late Harry Cohn, then president of Columbia Pictures, became so furious because he was consistently poorly seated that he bought the building housing Le Pavilion. Soule kept right on seating Cohn in Siberia. Cohn raised the rent. Soule simply moved his restaurant, at a cost of some $400,000, out of the building. His impossibly high standards in the kitchen led to endless resignations, all to the ultimate benefit of gastronomes, for those who left today preside over many of Manhattan's best restaurants. He had become what all restaurateurs aspire to be-the perfect...
...mouth." Mandelstam's reference to raspberries was in a very special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled in 1934 to Siberia. In 1934 he was first exiled to eastern European Russia, and then to Voronezh in Central Russia, where he remained until the spring of 1937, and where he wrote some of his most remarkable poetry. It was only after his second arrest that he was sent to Siberia, where he died in Vladivostok...
...days later, the Georgian tribesman in the Kremlin, who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth. Betrayed by one of the writers in Pasternak's parlor, Mandelstam was arrested on Stalin's personal order and banished to Siberia. His poetry was suppressed and is still almost entirely unknown in the Soviet Union, while in the West his reputation has been obscured by trite translations...
...million annually, a volume 10% greater than Japan's trade with Britain. Last week, after prolonged negotiations, a four-man team of Soviet aviation experts stood by in Tokyo, ready to initial an agreement establishing the first commercial air service between Moscow and Tokyo, by way of Siberia...