Word: natasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...
This squad will be augmented for Commencement Day by Grace Anthony '49, Marie Benedetti '49, Virginia Cass '49, Elizabeth Crowley '49, Ann Devney '49, Natasha Drury '49, Josephine Fiske '49, Shirley Goldman '49, Marion Hayes '49, Charlotte Horwood '49, Nancy Kane '49, Winifred Libbon '49, Ruth Marshall '49, Frances McDonald '49, Ann Murphy '49, Ruth Reichart '49, Elizabeth Zacharchuk '49, Joan Braverman '50, Nina Emerson '50, Nancy Rodriguez '50, Lucia Toscano '50, Joan Bresnahan '51, Hanni Ehren theil '51, Barbara Fitzgerald '51, and Jean O'Brien...
...Chebutykin outstanding. Gwenn captures all the inherent pathos in the character of the pitiful Army Doctor who takes to drink to escape from his failure in life; his Act III soliloquy, which in less capable hands could have become bathetic, is exactly right. Ruth Gordon is an extremely lifelike Natasha, so lifelike in fact that one comes from the theatre hating her thespian guts. And Judith Anderson turns in a finely turned performance as Olga, bearing her neurosis ably. Miss Cornell, The Lady With the Manner, is as wonderful as ever. Although the play has no one outstanding role, Katherine...
Sergei Korokov and his wife, Natasha, lived in a Russian village that was overrun by the Nazi Army. Sergei got orders to join the local force of Russian guerrillas. Escaping from his village, he killed a Nazi sentry, "felt the blade sink downward easily." To reach the guerrillas he had to shoot one German ("his body . . . rolled silently"), then-another ("his body crumpled...
Then Sergei found that his wife Natasha was being kept nude in a Nazi soldier's brothel. He and Fyodor rushed the brothel, were stopped by a sentry. They "looped a wire around his neck." Sergei found Natasha with a German officer. He fired. In an instant "she came leaping over the body" into Sergei's arms. Soon they were safe in a snow hut built by Sergei. Fyodor's face was "placid." He was dead...