Word: vladimir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TALE OF A WHISTLING SHRIMP (251 pp.) -Vladimir B. Grinioff-Dutton...
...Colombo, Soviet Ambassador to Ceylon Vladimir Yakovlev, possibly noting how fashionably his U.S. opposite number, Ambassador Maxwell Gluck, is getting about town, ordered the same brand of jalopy−an air-conditioned Buick...
Most respected figure is the grand old man of Soviet graphic art, Book Illustrator Vladimir (Boris Godunov, The Lay of the Host of Igor) Favorsky, 71, whose prints have a turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These...
...BREAD ALONE (512 pp.)-Vladimir Dudintsev-Dutton...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...