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...this way, virtue itself becomes a diverse and embracing idea. The hundreds of selections in his book -- poems, essays, fairy tales, folklore, short stories -- are themselves multicultural, representing a variety of peoples, from Dead White Males, such as Aesop, Plato, Jefferson and Tolstoy, to imposing American blacks, such as Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., to the Indian authors of the epic Mahabharata...
...YEARS, BRITISH NOVEList A.N. Wilson has published 22 books -- and not in just one or two genres. Finish his excellent biography, say, of Tolstoy or C.S. Lewis, and there's a new novel out. After that, a collection of outrageous opinions about the royal family hits the shelves...
Anna Karenina. Claire Bloom in adramatic reading adapted from Tolstoy's novel.Peformed in two parts with a break to dinner.Hasty Pudding Theatre, Part I from 4-6 p.m., PartII from...
ABOUT A CENTURY AGO, LEO TOLSTOY REputedly remarked, "Imagine Genghis Khan with a telephone!" What the author of War and Peace had in mind, of course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today...
THERE IS A DEEPLY MYSTICAL SIDE to Vladimir Feltsman. It has to do with suffering and spiritual reunification -- what Tolstoy called "resurrection." But the Russian-born pianist refuses to talk about all this. He lets his music do the talking in the unfolding of these remarkable Goldberg Variations, from the first tender, probing notes of the aria, through successive layers of joy, exuberance, introspection and turbulence, and finally back to the whispered serenity of the aria. In between, as Feltsman might say, lies infinity...