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...occasionally turns high comedy into desolating farce. More important, he seems to lack breadth: it would have been good for the reader to find some comparison of Nabokov with such a contemporary as Isaac Babel, another great Russian who stayed home to his grief, or with such predecessors as Tolstoy and Henry James. Within these limitations, the book offers clear thinking and uncluttered prose; it is a fitting guide to the most complex, demanding and fertile novelist now writing...
PROKOFIEV: WAR AND PEACE (3 LPs; Heliodor). Tolstoy's epic is not the easiest assignment in operatic composing, but by concentrating on the love story of Prince Andrei and Natasha, and Kuturov's defeat of Napoleon, Prokofiev has done a surprisingly effective job. Instead of beginning with a big party scene, he shrewdly chooses a tender picture of longing and rebirth when Andrei hears Natasha and Sonya on their balcony. The composer has written the girls a soprano duet that recalls Strauss's lyricism. Here and elsewhere, the voices of Radmilla Vasovic Bokacevic and Biserka Cvejic...
...hands anxious to join each other but whose fingers refuse to do so. I am craving for their union, but he more I try to join them, the worse it gets. Yet I know that it can be done and that they are made for one another. --letter from Tolstoy to Countess Alexandra Tolstaya April...
...hulking (6 ft. 4 in.) son of a Nyack, N.Y., merchant was always a loner. He devoured Tolstoy and Turgenev in high school, went to New York at 17 to study at the New York School of Art with Robert Henri, a leader of the Ashcan School. Hopper learned there that the proper study of American artists is American daily life, but the dark, flamboyant style that Henri encouraged among Hopper's fellow students, most notably George Bellows and Rockwell Kent, was not for Hopper. Instead, he went on to Paris, absorbed the lighter palette of the impressionists...
Most of the negotiating struggle took place in the 150-year-old Italianate Villa Le Bocage on the west shore of Lake Geneva, once the home of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy and now headquarters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the sponsoring agency of the Kennedy Round. While newsmen waited outside in a downpour (or took shelter in the stable), GATT's British director general, Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers...