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...Adventures of Tom Sawyer that is astonishingly faithful to the spirit and detail of the book. Says Director Stanislav Govorukhin, 46, who has treasured Twain's novel since he was Tom Sawyer's age: "I treated it with the same care that I would a work by Tolstoy or Chekhov...
...directional flow that carries the universe along with its impartial and inexorable wave. The discovery of measurable time is one of the early signs of civilization, like literacy and cosmetics. Time may be mysterious, but it also possesses an admirable objective purity, a sort of narrative genius, like Tolstoy...
...their times and places, calculating with rare skill the human and industrial capacities of the nation, the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. One of Hart's heroes is General Mikhail Kutuzov, whose patient strategy in turning back Napoleon's invasion of Russia is immortalized in Tolstoy's War and Peace. The old general used time, weather, distance, maneuver and surprise to defeat the mightiest army ever assembled in Europe. "General Kutuzov outfought Napoleon, he didn't just overwhelm him with weapons," says Hart. "We must learn to do the same...
...also seldom wrong; within two decades he was to be on the shelves with Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Even so, he knew at the start that his sense of invention could not equal his powers of observation. As Winston notes, "A symbolic fiction must be provided with the most realistic of foundations. This was an article of faith with Mann from the outset of his career." And where was he to find those foundations? In the lives of his colleagues and contemporaries, no matter how vulnerable they were; art was everything. Aschenbach, the enfeebled aesthete of Death in Venice...
...donations from Americans who have heard of their plight, the Kirghiz benefit from the approximately $500,000 the International Rescue Commission earmarks each year for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The committee has also helped out with the lobbying the Kirghiz desperately need to get to America. The Ford and Tolstoy Foundations and the Young Mens Christian Association have also expressed an interest in helping the Kirghiz. But all who are working on the project agree that it is difficult to find funds...