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...husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto...
...horror at the possible death of a culture, as fragile as the ozone layer, the culture of Dostoyevsky and Pasternak? Damn the totalitarian empire, but will this be the end of the only country in the world where millions of people recite poetry by heart, like a prayer, where they listen to poetry readings in stadiums, where a book of verse can still sell 250,000 copies...
...wrote only two letters to him in my life: once to get permission for an exhibition of paintings by the banned Marc Chagall, and the second time for the rehabilitation of the novelist Boris Pasternak and the creation of a museum in his honor. Gorbachev helped both times. I never mentioned this before, so as not to damage his standing with the conservative wing. And when demonstrators call for "Gorbachev on trial!," this is also a victory for him. He was the first Russian ruler to allow himself to be mocked. Why was there never a demonstration calling for trials...
...Litter (D), 2:09.82; 2. Richard Smyers (D), 2:12.21; 3. Ken Pasternak...
Brian Hecht's music direction is adequate, but the ensemble had problems with balance--lines and voices often get lost. The transition between numbers is fairly smooth, though, and the four band members, particularly Ken Pasternak on trumpet, bring zest to the otherwise standard score...