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...Darwin has been the game's greatest chronicler. Although Darwin is indisputably the best golf writer who ever lived, many also rate him the greatest sportswriter to set ink on paper, and that estimation takes into account such noteworthy members of the genus as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner...
David Mamet, unlike the grunting, inarticulate characters he puts on the stage in American Buffalo, is as wordy as Webster's. In the course of conversation, the 29-year-old playwright can ornament his speeches with quotes from Tolstoy, Archibald MacLeish, Karl Marx, Voltaire, Jesus or Stanislavsky...
That is a little like describing Tolstoy as the Russian exponent of land reform...
...journalism at Princeton and plans to ignore his unfinished Peter manuscript until the spring. "I'm not saying I'll never finish it," he told TIME Reporter Sarah Bedell. "Peter the Great has been around 300 years." Da, tovarich, but litterateurs may recall the fate of Leo Tolstoy, who, following the success of War and Peace, plunged into a novel about the selfsame czar. Even he abandoned the project for something shorter and simpler: Anna Karenina...
Remember those hundreds of pages of moralizing on fate and history at the end of War and Peace which you were always tempted to skip, preferring to have Andrei's death scene with the grieving Natasha at his bedside go on and on? Well, in the adaptation of Tolstoy's epic novel which visiting director Norman Ayrton is staging in the second mainstage slot this season at the end of March, the romantic glow doesn't fade because the moralizing comes first. In the stage version the voice of Tolstoy has been fleshed out as a narrator...