Word: tolstoyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child, caught in the determinism of society and history upon which his own War and Peace was based. The Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated him; the Communist Lenin wrote incisively: "On the one hand, an extraordinarily powerful, direct and sincere protest against social lies and hypocrisy; on the other, a Tolstoyan, that is, a wornout, historical sniveler called the Russian intellectual, who, publicly beating his breast, cries: 'I am bad, I am vile, but I am striving after moral self-perfection. . . .' " Yet Stalin's government has hailed Tolstoy as a literary hero of the Russian people...
...been separated ever since from his wife, a Spanish singer named Lina Llubera whom he met on his first trip to Manhattan. Prokofiev now lives in a Moscow apartment with a tall, intense young writer named Mira Mendelssohn, who helped him on the libretto for War and Peace, the Tolstoyan opera which had its tryout last March. Stalin had promised to let Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera produce it, but after its Moscow premiere, War and Peace was hastily withdrawn for reworking. Soviet critics objected mostly to Mira's unwieldy text...
...Prokofieff's monumental opera, War and Peace (promised by Stalin to the Metropolitan Opera after a Soviet premiere) had a concert run-through last week at the Moscow Conservatory. An audience of professional musicians, squirming through the sceneryless nine scenes, vigorously applauded the classic melodies, found the unwieldy Tolstoyan libretto tough going and concluded that the opera was far from finished...
...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...
Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out. "It is constantly assumed," he wrote, "especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamblike. But that is brutal annexation and imperialism on the part of the lamb. . . . The real problem is-Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved." In the same manner he explained the profound significance of the story of Fall...