Svetlana Alliluyeva's Book Proves Starkly Terrifying
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan reviews Svetlana Alliluyeva’s Twenty Letters to a Friend, noting its stark portrayal of the Stalin era. Translation quirks blunt some phrases, but the memoir conveys heart of Russia’s terror, blaming Beria more than Stalin and challenging the Kremlin’s 50th anniversary narrative.
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Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Moscow
Kremlin
Svetlana Akiluyeva
Svetlana
Russia
Priscilla Johnson McMillan
Harper & Row
Dostoievs
Stalin
Frank G Slaughter High Output Author Wins Christmas Honor
News from 1945 highlights Frank G Slaughter’s rise from medicine to prolific writing. After That None Should Die sold well in Denmark, he quit Riverside Hospital and became a full time author. He has 48 books in 27 years, translated into 20 languages, selling millions annually, with a forthcoming Doctor's Wives film and plans for two novels per year.
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Frank G. Slaughter
Denmark
United States
Riverside Hospital
Slaughter
Earle Stanley Gardner
Erskine Caldwell
O'Hara
Hemingway
West Chester
Washington, D. C
North Carolina
Duke University
Johns Hosphins Medical School
Jacksonville
Fla
Keystone Heights
Columbia Pictures
Carson McCullers Life and Works Remembered
A retrospective on Carson McCullers born in Georgia, author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. It notes her strokes, disability, husband Reeves McCullers death in 1953, and her death in 1964 at age 50.
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Carson McCullers
Georgia
Reeves McCullers
Mischa Elman Opposes Musical Contests and Critiques Winners
The violinist Mischa Elman, in a Musical Journal piece, argues contests are inappropriate for music, calling it an emotional art, not sport, noting judges' bias and past prize outcomes. He recalls Tschaikovsky’s silver prize and Saint-Saëns’s failures, with a quip about a prodigy turned critic. Metropolitan Opera limits Sunday box office lines to 8 am for security, issuing numbered tickets at the Plaza.
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Mischa Elman
North Carolina
Musical Journal
Russia
Tschaikovsky
Camile Saint-Saens
Saint Saens
Camille
Madame
Metropolitan Opera
McGuffey’s Readers Shaped 19th Century Education
Neal Austin analyzes William Holmes McGuffey’s rise from rough Ohio beginnings to a cultural force through his readers. McGuffey forged a stern but practical morality, stressing virtue via immediate rewards and requiring rigorous language, which built strong vocabularies but limited student initiative. His methods sparked debate over value today versus past impact.
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Ohio
McGuffey
William Holmes McGuffey
Washington College
Presbyterian Church
Cincinnati College
Ohio University
University of Virginia
William McGuffey
Soprano Marie Collier on Mourn ing Becomes Elektra at Met
New York soprano Marie Collier discusses her Met debut in Mourning Becomes Elektra and how she maintains control to avoid damaging her voice. She recalls Tosca at Covent Garden, world premieres, and the balance between drama and vocal health while highlighting her private home life in London.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
New
Elektra
Marie Collier
Maria Callas
Covent Garden
Eugene O'Neill
Collier
Evelyn
Lear
Met
Miss Collier
Manon Lescaut
Houston
Jenufa
la Scala
Wozzeck
Hecuba
Michael Tippett
King Priam
England
Christine
Australia
London
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