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...Living Corpse", a cinema of Tolstoy's posthumous drama, produced in Russia; is the current presentation at the Fine Arts Theatre. In speaking of almost any weekly program at this theatre which presents either first run films, foreign films, or repetitions of the best films of former years, it is worth while to say that with few exceptions, in comparison with regular moving picture standards, they must be called superlative...
...Notable exceptions: Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Tolstoy...
...Harvard class of 1908, who later distinguished himself, once told me that on a November day, when the Yale game was being played in New Heaven, he sat in a leather armchair beside a fire of logs in the library of the Union, from after breakfast until dusk, reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Autumn loured in cloudy skies and mourned in the gusty wind, steps scffed along the board-walks, football songs were whistled, the oak door slammed; it all sounded as from a dream. He was living in a remote heroic world. That was the days when...
...Tolstoy's objection to definitions such as Mrs. Sloan's-which rests on the word "beauty"-is that we have as yet found no objective definition of the word "beauty" itself, and a definition that relies on the use of a word which itself needs definition is of no practical use, and is not a working definition...
...Organizing Secretary The Tolstoy Society, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, England...