Leo Tolstoy

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• Russian Film Week ’09: Anna Karenina

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 428
  “A great Russian brand” is how director Sergei Solovyev described Leo Tolstoy in a press conference held last night. He also credited Oprah Winfrey for helping bring his screen adaptation of Anna Karenina to fruition when she recommended it to her Pavlovian viewers, making an unlikely bestseller of the Nineteenth ...
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• A novel approach to politics

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 126
  Back to the Socialist Standard . There are long term plans to digitise every issue of the Socialist Standard going back to September 1904, in order that they can be made available online for anyone and everyone to read but, in the meantime, the work of posting articles of interest from old Socialist Standards ...
  2 days ago

• Cite your sources, please

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 446
  Today I was reading a passage about Leo Tolstoy in the book A Faith and Culture Devotional . Parts of the book are used in an on-line guide, so this link is to that. I have the print copy. (Its a wonderful book in case youre looking for Christmas ideas.) The passage about Tolstoy’s treatment of his wife Sophia ...
  4 days ago

• WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON?

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 119
  November 9, 2009 Washington, DC Cabinet card of Count Leo Tolstoy by Sass, Moscow. Photo from Library of Congress Collection , George Kennan Papers. Working on some research for the blog this morning, I was surprised to discover that Leo Tolstoy’s late-in-life spirituality greatly influenced both Mahatma ...
  1 week ago

• “Short On Facts” Fox

  
  Mad Kane's Political Madness — Authority: 514
  One of the silliest Republican (and Fox News) talking points is that the Democratic health reform bill is too long. Fox News Live Desk’s Trace Gallagher seems especially fond of it, making repeated (and inaccurate) comparisons to Tolstoy’s War and Peace. (Well, we always knew that Fox is fond of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your dose of daily stupid: Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.

  
  Van Santos — Authority: 436
  I cannot believe the… self-indulging sense of importance Rocco Landesman and member of Obama’s administration have.  Truly, I cannot.  However, I guess the follow isn’t too far fetched from a group that asked artists to shill for the administration . During his 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blogs as Modern Art

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 159
  “In order correctly to define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life. Viewing it in this way we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of intercourse between [...]
  3 weeks ago

• 6 questions we always ask, Rachel Coyne, author

  
  Minnesota Reads — Authority: 467
  Rachel Coyne is a novelist and poet who resides in Lindstrom, Minnesota. Coyne is a graduate of the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a public arts highschool in Golden Valley, Minnesota and Macalester College in St. Paul. She is a devotee of Pablo Neruda, a lover of Don Williams songs and a collector of vintage ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nobel Prize Winners & Losers

  
  Lex Lowther — Authority: 117
  While everyone has either been putting the proverbial spank or glad handing Obama for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought it would be of better use to stand back and look at some odd points about the prize itself. Nobel Prize Winners Circle: Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1815: Joachim Murat, Napoleonic Marshal

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On this date in 1815, French Marshal-cum-Neapolitan King Joachim Murat was shot in Pizzo, Italy, for a failed attempt to regain his throne. The charismatic cavalryman cuts a snazzy figure in the Napoleonic era, from its very infancy: it was Murat who secured for the 26-year-old Bonaparte the cannon used to ...
  5 weeks ago

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