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Take Time. He lives quietly in Manhattan and arranges his appearances strictly within the limits of his wish to stay in the city. Behind his Tartar mustache, he builds resolutions to work harder that he rarely keeps, then goes out to play the piano so well that almost no one else around can touch him. "Some day," he says, mustering up another resolution, "I'd like to do a little writing-I think I could, maybe. And I'd like to play well enough to do a single like Art Tatum. I'm just going to take...
Nureyev attributes his temperament to the fact that he was born a Tartar, not a Russian. It is his Tartar blood, says Nureyev, that gives him "something in common with wild, untamable animals." What he needs most, and in this even his admirers agree, is a little taming-the kind of rigid discipline that he might well have gotten had he stayed in Russia...
...Zhenya," as handsome, 28-year-old Evtushenko is invariably called, started out where many another Russan poet has ended-in Siberia. The blond, beanpole-tall (6 ft. 3 in.) poet comes of Ukrainian, Tartar and Latvian stock that has never, he grins, "been collectivized." Though he likes to be taken for a country boy, he is a Muscovite by upbringing and accent, and his background rubs off on his sophisticated, often colloquial poetic style. His deep appeal lies in a rare faculty for sensing-and transmitting-the doubts and yearnings of a generation that has lost its illusions...
...Tartars & Indians. The pearl of this collection. The Enchanted Wanderer, is the skaz at its purest, with a framework of auditors who listen to the story and occasionally interrupt with provocative questions. It is a picaresque short novel, narrated by its hero, who was born a serf, trained as an outrider, and who became in turn a thief, a Tartar captive and husband of Tartar wives, a soldier, a horse dealer, a civil servant, an actor and a novice in a monastery-always resigned to his fate, yet full of curiosity and humor, always interested in the experience of being...
...procurement-the biggest package given any armed service. Most of the money will be spent for strengthening the carrier aircraft squadrons of nuclear-armed Douglas A4D-2N attack bombers and 1,400-m.p.h. McDonnell F4H-1 and Chance Vought F8U-2N jet fighters, plus Bullpup air-to-surface missiles, Tartar and Terrier surface-to-air missiles and torpedoes...