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Unluckiest of all, the audience is allowed to know less than it might about the Prince himself (nobody can ever know enough about him). It sees too little of his dreadful uncertainty, his numbed amazement over his own drifting, his agonized self-vilification. It understands too little of him as...
He wished to devote all his time to literature, yet yearned for the satisfactions of conventional family life. He thought of his "possible future wife and possible children," only to realize that his ill health (he died of tuberculosis at 40) would prevent him from having either. "It seems so...
Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might...
To make his own distinctly Russian substitute for a "form of social order," Czar Nicholas I (called "The Nightstick") in 1826 decided to create a new thing, a secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene...