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...four-contestant race to film Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Broadway Producer Mike Todd (TIME. Dec. 13) and Italian Producer Dino de Laurentis are well ahead of M-G-M and David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick. De Laurentis already has a crew in Finland ready to shoot snowy backgrounds for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, although his six writers have not yet done the script for Director King (Duel in the Sun) Vidor. Unintimidated. Todd hired Fred (From Here to Eternity) Zinnemann to direct and Playwright Robert Sherwood to write his version, announced that...
Slavic 155 gives students a chance to read almost all the major works of Dostoievski and Tolstoy. Professor Renato Poggioli plays the Grand Inquistor in Emerson...
...Beethoven had asked for wine; when it finally came he said: "Too bad! Too bad! It's too late!" As the plane in which he was riding was about to crash, George C. Atcheson Jr., diplomatic aide to General MacArthur, said: "Well, it can't be helped." Tolstoy: "I do not understand what I have to do." Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby: "Ah, very well...
...failure to get through The Monastery robbed me of Scott for half a lifetime. Imagine the fate of the man first introduced to Shakespeare through Troilus and Cressida, to Trollope through He Knew He Was Right, to Hardy through Jude the Obscure or to Flaubert through Bouvard et Pecuchet . . . Tolstoy is the only author I know whose novels and major stories can be read in any order without deterrence...
Novelist Goncharov was incapable of firing off the demoniac, soul-searching pyrotechnics of a Tolstoy or a Dostoevsky, but with quiet irony and firm psychological realism he stirred his TNT in a teacup...