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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Karenina (Korda; 20th Century-Fox) is the latest movie version (there have been four U.S. ones) of Tolstoy's lesser masterpiece. It is by far the costliest ($2,000,000) but far from the best.* Sir Alexander Korda and his British bankers provided the money; France's famed Director Julien Duvivier (Pepe Le Moko, Panic) contributed' his talents...
...stories. When he writes, "A young man made a million marks, lay down on them, and shot himself," the reader is in the authentic Chekhov atmosphere. Occasionally, as in the letters, Chekhov drops his attitude of severe objectivity and speaks about himself in that humorously modest fashion that led Tolstoy to call him a wonderful man: "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly, it's not so dull, and besides, neither of them loses anything from my infidelity...
...Heartily Detest. . . ." From the Russian pacifist Count Leo Tolstoy and the American hermit-naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi learned the doctrines of nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
...Gandhi has read many a book. In his autobiography, where he called Tolstoy's book on of the two most important in his life, he wrote: "The one book that brought about an instantaneous and practical transformation in my life was [Ruskin's] Unto This Last...
...failed to point out that Gandhi is in a real sense a spiritual child of New England. In the very first chapter of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which Gandhi read with such avidity in his South African days, Tolstoy refers to ... The Catechism of Non-Resistance, written by the Rev. Adin Ballou (1803-1890), who more than 100 years ago founded and became the first president of Hopedale (Socialist) Community in Hopedale, Mass. . . . Gandhi's "passive resistance" is just Ballou's "nonresistance" under another name. LEWIS O. HARTMAN Resident Bishop Methodist Church Boston...