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...TOLSTOY: A LIFE OF MY FATHER (543 pp.)-Alexandra Tolsyoy-Harper...
Count Leo Tolstoy believed that "gymnastics do not interfere with running an estate." His serfs disagreed. "You come to the master for orders," complained the village elder, "and the master in a red shirt is hanging upside down from a pole; his hair is all hanging around, his face flushed. You don't know whether to listen to orders or stand and gape...
Prokofiev's aristocrats were snobbish, idle, worthless people; his masses were the salt of the earth. Officially, the Communists did not attend, but the Communist press turned handsprings in praise of Prokofiev's work and its ideological message. Some critics, obviously unfamiliar with Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel, had trouble following the plot, and small wonder: about the only original characters who came through were Pierre, the high-born hero who learned to love the Russian people through suffering with them, and Natasha, the simple girl who returned to her first love when...
...favorite book" display, the librarian at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) wrote to 44 men of affairs asking them to nominate two or three books which they considered "most meaningful." Sample return, from Vice President Richard Nixon: Tolstoy's War and Peace, Robert La Follette's autobiography, and Witness, by Whittaker Chambers...
...this time, in addition to teaching his regular classes at Harvard, papa had undertaken to translate 24 volumes of Tolstoy in 24 months, and in the evenings, while scribbling furiously and peering into proofs, he would hear out Norbert's lessons. And though he was listening with only half an ear, that was quite enough to catch Norbert in his mistakes...