Word: lev
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When they came to power in October 1917, many of the Bolsheviks seriously doubted that they could govern the vast, chaotic land of Russia by themselves. "We can't hold out!" cried one of the prominent leaders. Lev Kamenev. Lenin himself hoped at first that the October Revolution would last as long as the Paris Commune of 1871 -71 days-to serve as a warning to capitalism. "It is most surprising," he later said, "that there was no one there to kick us out immediately." This week, to mark the 50 years that have passed since that shaky start...
...that may suggest a sort of Lev-ittavern, but Costick insists that the Levittavern pubs are absolutely authentic-and he obviously speaks from experience. "We know," he says, "what size the beams should be, how far the publican stands behind the bar counter, and how English pub fireplaces work...
...critics, Fedor Burlatsky and Lev Karpinsky, had condemned Russian theater censors as "incompetent meddlers" who are afraid of "a fresh and sharp idea or an unexpected treatment of a subject." They deplored the habit of cultural commissars' dropping casually in on rehearsals of a new play and then later banning its opening, criticized the censors' prim hostility to such themes as religion. Frightened by the uproar the article caused among the young Communists, Komsomolskaya Pravda last week ran an editorial condemning not only the two critics but also its own editors for spreading "gross ideological error...
Langer's host was Lev Davidovich Bronstein who had been banished from Russia in 1929, and who, in the following years, was hounded-from Turkey to France and Norway and eventually to Mexico. Surrounded by a rapidly diminishing number of friends, most of his offspring and closest associates already dead, Bronstein had lost little of the intensity and dynamism which had characterized his years of greatness...
Brilliant as Sokolov was, some judges felt that Dichter was incomparable. During the second round, he played the Schubert Sonata in A Major and Stravinsky's Petrushka in a dazzling bravura style that prompted Soviet Pianist Lev Vlasenko (who ran second to Cliburn in 1958) to cheer him as "the best musician among the piano finalists...