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...reflection or the familiarity will remain too verbal ... Probably,... a course which chose eight great books would be trying to do too much. A list from which a selection would be made might include Homer, one or two of the Greek tragedies, Plato, the Bible, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy...
...call the mass media-are pouring forth the enormous flood of dreams that we now call mass culture, which our intellectual culture seems to oppose. It is true that the mental level of the films based on War and Peace and Anna Karenina is incomparably inferior to that of Tolstoy's novels; it is true that the mental level of the cinema, and particularly its emotional level, is quite low. But without the film, the millions who have seen Anna Karenina would never have read the novel. Westerns have not replaced Plato or Balzac; they have replaced The Three...
...project might seem doomed to failure by its own pretension. Yet English critics have invoked the name of Tolstoy in praising The Fox in the Attic. No one has caviled that Hughes, who was too young for combat in World War I and too old for combat in World War II, should have chosen to write about both. After all, Tolstoy wrote War and Peace a half-century after Borodino. Hughes himself sets his sights even higher; it occurred to him in the middle of World War II, he explains, that "if I turned my back...
...Spot v. Tolstoy. The key, says Trace. is early introduction to the joys of good reading. Russian youngsters enter first grade at seven, a year later than U.S. children. But in a few weeks, using a phonics system, they can handle all sounds of their Cyrillic alphabet (Russian is more precisely phonetic than English). Bright or slow, all children then take up a standard first-grade reader with a vocabulary of 2,000 words. By comparison, one commonly used U.S. first reader. Fun with Dick and Jane* is limited to a 158-word vocabulary. Sample: "See me run," said Sally...
...ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully one-third of his reader is unadulterated literature-poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov, old Russian fables and seven assorted stories and anecdotes by Leo Tolstoy, including his Russian version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears...