Word: raskolnikov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...
Anna Snitkina, stenographer, stands across the street from a dingy building in the artisans' district of St. Petersburg, and thinks: This is the apartment house where Raskolnikov must have lived. Timidly she climbs the stairs and knocks on the door of the second floor apartment. A servant with a green shawl draped around her shoulders lets Anna in, and the stenographer thinks: this must be the shawl worn by Mrs. Marmeladov. Anna follows the servant down a dark hallway, into a dimly lit study and thinks: This is the desk where the great man must have written Crime and Punishment...
...private to be unimpeachable in its own way. But as social commentary, as a unique document of its times, A Darkening Green faces some severe problems. First off, it is not unique. Novelists have dealt with the problems of students since Christ was a corporal (or at least since Raskolnikov murdered his landlady), and A Darkening Green is nothing except the notebooks and commentary of someone who aspired to be and then was not a novelist...
Catholic author Sidney Cornelia Callahan disagrees: "That was Raskolnikov's argument in Crime and Punishment: that to kill somehow gave him a sense of growth. I would say everything you have said for contraception, but not for abortion." Nevertheless Moore is convinced that she is right-and from her own experience even concludes that it can sometimes be wrong not to end a pregnancy: "It would have been extremely immoral for me not to have an abortion when I did. There were circumstances having to do with my family, my studies, my future, my health. Taking these factors into...
...next popular attraction may be entitled "Raskolnikov...