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...There was a framed photo of the late mercenary chief in his military garb and medals, along with a framed excerpt from the Joseph Brodsky poem “Still Life”....
...Dutli also deftly examines his literary legacy and explains why, in the opinion of the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, Mandelstam can be considered the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century, who personified...
...“Attempting to recall the past,” Joseph Brodsky once wrote, “is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball”....
...Polish admiration for the dissident Russian writer Joseph Brodsky is being questioned because of a vicious anti-Ukrainian poem he wrote....
...Joseph Brodsky defended boredom as a way to stimulate activity, and explained that those who experience boredom in all its stultifying splendour will be spurred on to great things....
...Prada stretch poplin shirt, £335, from harrods.com The best book I’ve read in the past year is Watermark, the poet Joseph Brodsky’s essay on Venice....
...“As the poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky once said in an interview, ‘The periphery is the place where the world spills over.’ ” The landscape Guidi has long favoured reveals the material culture of its...
...Under the Soviet regime, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky all won the Nobel Prize in Literature; all three were admired as much for their moral courage as for their writing....
...As the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky once wrote, the real history of consciousness begins with our first lie....
...One of the first people Mikhail Baryshnikov met when he arrived in New York in 1974, newly defected from the Soviet Union, was the poet Joseph Brodsky....
...Joseph Brodsky, the Soviet exile who won the Nobel literature prize in 1987, once attacked critics for relegating Walcott to regional status because of “an unwillingness . . . to admit that the great poet...
...“Geography blended with time equals destiny,” wrote the poet Joseph Brodsky. However his lyrical description of a subject developed by Ptolemy does not exactly tally with modern perceptions....
...That stubbornness permeates the work of Auden’s Russian protégé Joseph Brodsky. His poems are intensely introspective and, though not exactly cryptic, seldom tell a recognisable story....
...Their innovations spanned painting, sculpture, photography, film and ceramics, but the explosion of experimentation came to a brutal end in the early 1930s after Joseph Stalin suppressed the avant-garde...
...Asked why RCB pays out nearly 100 per cent of its profits in dividends, Mr Zimarin quoted Joseph Brodsky, the poet who was expelled from the Soviet Union: “I’ve been reproached for everything except the...
...… Whenever I am at a loss to understand Russia, I turn to a well-thumbed copy of Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky, the exiled Russian poet and Nobel laureate....
...The memoir details her voyages beyond the Iron Curtain, and friendships with Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and other dissident writers....
...“What a grand biography the regime is writing for him,” said the nationalist opposition leader Vladimir Tor, himself echoing words by Akhmatova about the 1960s trial of the dissident poet Joseph Brodsky....
...The move will heighten speculation that Mr Brodsky, a former law school classmate of US vice-president Joseph Biden, will be considered for a leadership role at the Securities and Exchange Commission with...
...As well as Solzhenitsyn and Baryshnikov, his generation of exiles included Joseph Brodsky, and Mstislav Rostropovich....
...Nobel laureate and native son Joseph Brodsky, exiled by the Soviets, reflects on the city’s rich heritage while writers from Nabokov to the dissident Andrei Makine offer differing perspectives of its modern...
...“The purpose of evolution,” wrote Joseph Brodsky, “is beauty.” And, if the zenith of civilisation is the city, then surely it follows that beauty is also the ideal of urbanity....
...Water equals time,” wrote Joseph Brodksy, “and provides beauty with its double.”...
...Henry James supplies many elegant observations, while Joseph Brodsky’s winterscape is evocative and Thomas Mann unearths a seamier side to the city....
...In particular, prosecutors focused on the statements and actions of Joseph Cassano, the division’s head, and several of his deputies....
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