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...manuscript form in the hands of one of the famed monks of Mount Athos. The abbot of St. Michael's Monastery at Kazan, Russia, discovered it, copied it, and it appeared in 1884. Though one of the classics of Russian Orthodoxy that sounds a note often heard in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, it is only now published for the first time in the U.S. under the title: The Way of a Pilgrim (translated by R. M. French; Harper; $2.75). Its subject is mystical prayer, not as something for the sanctified few but for all men and women...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
Though juvenile crime is more fully reported nowadays than ever before, Dr. Lindner still feels that there is a real contrast between the woes of today's youth and "those classical descriptions of the storms of adolescence detailed by Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Dickens, Joyce, Mann and the rest." These, he says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn...
...perhaps." In the meantime, "I write the kind of books I write because it's the only kind I know how to write. Besides, I don't think it's the writer's job to try to change moral, political and religious beliefs. For all Tolstoy's arguing, people go back to Anna Karenina for Anna and that...
...three years at sea, Ho Chi Minh read avidly-Tolstoy, Zola, Shakespeare, Marx-and from all accounts had pretty rough sailing. He was seasick. He was almost swept overboard. He was too frail to lift the heavy copper stewpans, and got only ten francs for his first 8,000-mile voyage to France. At Marseille he was offended when prostitutes came on board. "Why don't the French civilize their own people," he asked, "before they pretend to civilize...