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Belinsky, the literary critic, wrote the letter castigating the old, then reactionary Gogol which for young Russians ever since has been a sort of declaration of faith in freedom. Chernyshevsky was the one who began as a literary critic but eventually went to Siberia for his classic revolutionary answer to the question What Is To Be Done...
Careerpuellae mrsrooseveltiac. Those who drown their emotions in activities (classic dance groups, political forums, et al.) These are unhappy unless they have some responsibility. They are usually underweight, worried, and dress comfortably rather than attractively. They work for Causes, and account for the rest of the first 33 1-3 per cent...
...regrettably true that the country is almost devoid of knowledge of our two neighbors and of Russia. But Professor Burns must have forgotten that the classic histories of colonial Canada and of the conquest of Mexico were written by a Harvard professor, Francis Parkman, and a Harvard graduate, William Prescott. As for Russia, at the present time, one of the few distinguished professors of Russian history in the country, Professor Karpovich, is on the Harvard staff...
...came from pudgy-cheeked, moody Jack Belden of the International News Service, known as the ablest field correspondent assigned to the China war. Correspondent Belden likes to break away from his base and go off on long trips into the interior. He comes back with such stories as his classic accounts of the Chinese retreat in North China in 1937 and of the operational tactics of the New Fourth Army...
...niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...