Word: ivanovitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, other transitions are not so effective. The characters of Pyotr Petrovitch Luhzin and Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, who ranks with Smerdyakov of The Brother's Karamazov as Dostoevsky's most frightening embodiments of evil, are merged into one person, Antoine Monestier, played by Bernard Blier. Blier handles the job fairly well, but fails to capture Svidrigailov's essense, largely because of the necessary omission of the dream sequences which are so important in the novel...
...Walker was curious to learn more about George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and the more he learned the more fascinated he became. He decided that Gurdjieff was one of the most gifted philosopher-psychologists of modern times. Convinced of the value of Gurdjieff's teachings, Author Walker has now written Venture with Ideas in the hope that others will benefit as he has himself. With this approach, he naturally focuses on the master's ideas at considerable expense to the master's personality, which clearly deserves fuller treatment...