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...TOLSTOY HOME (352 pp.]-Diaries of Tatiana Sukhotln-Tolstoy-Columbia University...
Crank disciples who had bolted down Tolstoy's views on nonviolence, abolition of property, vegetarianism, etc., camped right on the premises. "Khokhlov is still here and getting terribly on one's nerves," daughter Tatiana Tolstoy noted testily. "First, he doesn't eat anything; because he says he has no right to eat potatoes obtained by the labor of others: then he eats dates, and honey in the comb...
Temperature Chart. From the age of 13, daughter Tatiana (second of 13 children) took her father's precepts so seriously that she kept a moral temperature chart in the form of a diary. Tatiana made it a record of unsparing selfcriticism: "In my life-nothing; constant shame of my uselessness, and . . . whereas I profess Christianity in theory, in practice I so disgrace...
...secret police) has its own teams everywhere. The MGB usually gets the cream of the crop without resorting to athletic scholarships; it is hard to turn down a bid from old Mu Gamma Beta. Actually, the state itself takes wonderful care of boys & girls who look like champs. Shotputter Tatiana Sevryukovo got $1,600 for a record heave. Last winter every member of the Dynamo jutbol team that toured England got a $4,000 bonus on their triumphal return. The ultimate goal of all: the rank of "Master of Sport," which brings a star athlete not only prestige but such...
...Pretty" numbers like Blue Bayou and a silhouetted ballet by Dancers Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine aim for, and perfectly achieve, the qualities of dime-store and gift-shoppe art. As such they have great skill and a certain naive charm; but only genuine lovers of that kind of art can genuinely enjoy them. More likely to please everybody...