Word: tolstoys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...titled "Gloria Guinness on Elegance." What's elegance all about? Well, her list of examples, reading like half a dozen extra choruses of Cole Porter's You're the Top, offers the palm to such persons and things as the philosophy of Plato, the Ferrari automobile, Tolstoy, the Place Vendôme in Paris, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, the skyscraper, the model T Ford, and Gary Cooper. Noticeably absent was Mrs. Guinness herself-who is about as elegant as they come...
...Tolstoy called him "a universal individualist." In a doctrinaire sense, which reduces man to the subject of an ideology, Abraham Lincoln was not an individualist at all. But he is the greatest, the classic, the archetypical individual in the American imagination...
...childhood spent in the company of literary lights like Joseph Conrad, Henry James, "Jack" Galsworthy, Ford Madox Ford. His father was a prominent publisher; his mother Constance was the industrious translator who gave a whole generation of English readers the feeling that all the great Russians (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) wrote in the same curiously flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group, which included Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes...
Solzhenitsin's stark account, the first detailed description of Stalin's prison camps ever published in Russia, sold 40,000 copies on newsstands and a second printing of 100,000 was ordered. Glowing reviews, which compared the author to Tolstoy, appeared simultaneously in several newspapers, and it was reported that Khrushchev himself had read the story before publication and cleared...
...some of whom complained that they had bought tickets only after some arm-twisting from the President himself. The President made a small speech, saying that "art knows no national boundaries," since Jack London, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are read in the Soviet Union, while Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pasternak are read in the U.S. While the whole affair was a financial success, it was a cultural flop, especially for those in the National Armory. The acoustics were so bad, the atmosphere so close and the program so poor that nearly half of the audience walked out before...