Word: tolstoyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American literature has often been starved for lack of a grand theme-a Tolstoyan war, a Flaubertian passion, a Jamesian conflict of cultures. The Ne gro revolution, at once violent and vital, agonizing and altruistic, could provide such a theme. Novelist Ann Fairbairn tries to tackle it in this ambitious, achingly overwritten epic. The result is a compelling argument for instant Black Power-if only to avert a sequel...
...importance of Hughes' narrative and analysis far outweighs what rative and analysis far outweighs whatever stylistic attractions he has to offer. On the way to his conclusions, he sketches authoritative and compelling pictures of the surreal atmosphere of a campaign, the chaos which surrounds a change in administrations, the Tolstoyan confusion from which great decisions emerge. But his eye is always on the object, he is always looking for signs of that pervasive lethargy which befogs American politics. One of the places he finds it is in Adlai Stevenson's 1956 cappaign, which he considers a model of ineptitude. Significantly...
...Tolstoyan. The Italian constitution regards the President as the living symbol of the nation, and for Italy's paradoxical mood of economic prosperity and intellectual concern, the election of Segni was remarkably appropriate. A wealthy gentleman farmer from Sardinia,* Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...
...lawyer by training, Segni is also an experienced politician (twice Premier: 1955-57; 1959-60) and a thoughtful statesman who describes his outlook on history as Tolstoyan. "Men in government," he has written, "really have only an enormous capacity for doing harm. Their chances for doing good are very few and hard to come by." As Italy's President for the next seven years, Segni has a rare opportunity for doing good...