Word: dostoyevsky
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...experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. It seems to me that a political master of our fates should be asked, first of all, not about how he imagines the course of our foreign policy, but about his attitude towards Stendhal, Dickens, Dostoyevski...
While Mad Matisse Dances Dostoyevski...
...also had good days. In the 110-meter hurdles Chuck Johnson set a new personal record of 14.6 seconds--a full third of a second off his old time--on a cinder track that is only a little faster than the novels in Comp Lit 154, "Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevski...
WHEN EMILY MANN'S PRODUCTION of Robert Montgomery's Subject to Fits becomes good theater, and good art, the Loeb stage is set spinning with the whirl of a dance of living death. All of the characters in this "response to Dostoyevski's The Idiot" are trapped in individual hells, and in the bigger hell of the universe, and when they are forced to test their limits and laugh at them, human strength has a chance to win a sane survival. In morbid party games, in psychic tortures gleefully inflicted and returned, Mann's and Montgomery's cast of depraved...
...freethinker, the typical Harvard non-believer doodles with arguments about an entity named God as if this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, Pascal and Dostoyevski, into the realization that the religious question is the question of questions, that the problem of God is not whether an entity exists or does not exist--about which a cautious skepticism might make sense--but whether the spiritual dynamo of an entire civilization is still running or not, whether...