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...Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is "sheer nonsense," opined Author Rebecca West. For one thing, young girls in love do not go to their first balls in a "state of lust" like hussars, she argued. The occasion: a 75th anniversary poll by London's Times Literary Supplement of 43 writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring...
Carter's transition from child to man is already well documented. His basic political world view probably was gathering itself in those years. A somewhat abstract appreciation of humankind, of the heroism of the everyday life, a little from Tolstoy, a little from Dylan Thomas. A growing sense that history could be nudged-even shoved-with some hardheaded planning and trying, as his own history showed. A slowly smoldering burn against a social order in which blacks had to take white meanness as a given. But in those days he did not say much of what he thought...
...urged to read Tolstoy's War and Peace. He was disappointed when he found it was not about cowboys and Indians, but he stuck with it nonetheless. He has read the book two or three times and counts it as one of his favorites. He was deeply moved by Sandburg's volumes on Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography...
Everything said about New York City is true, but it is almost always an incomplete truth, like, say, describing Tolstoy as a religious nut. By the standards of Knoxville, Tenn., or St. Paul, Minn., New York's streets are filthy and sometimes dangerous-though among the six largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then...
Authors David and Nancy Dall Milton were English teachers at Peking's First Foreign Languages Institute until the Revolution. The couple describe themselves as "Pierres at Borodino," who, like the character in Tolstoy's War and Peace, survey the battleground less as participants than as observers. Their experience provides intimate details of the often mysterious doings of the cultural movement...