About Tatyana Tolstoy's dishonest review Once, while thinking about the attitude of a Christian to culture, Clive S. Lewis noted that if, under the guise of a novel, a writer slips a sermon to the reader, then he is thus deceiving the reader, and this is simply dishonest. After all, if the reader wants to hear a sermon, he will go to church, but if he wants to read a novel, then give him a novel, not a sermon.

Decline of style Shirley McMyrley Date of publication: October 13, 1999 Several years ago, Kama Ginkas was the ruler of thoughts and the subverter of traditions. All it took was for someone to turn off the electricity that permeated the impeccable designs of his performances.

Scandals and life Fedor Romer Date of publication: October 13, 1999 So, a month has passed since the beginning of the artistic season, marked by the apocalyptic figures of 1999-2000 (even a little more). And so far, fortunately, there are no signs of the apocalypse. However, the opposite required by logic - a general magnificent flourishing - is not observed either.

Cultural Guide. Issue 51 Sergey Kuznetsov Date of publication: October 13, 1999 Interactive Imagine that a foreigner comes to visit you. Maybe not even a foreigner, but a Russian emigrant who decided to return to the city of his childhood for a while. And he asks you to take him somewhere. You can select three or four items from the list, because you don’t have time for more. Where would you take a foreigner in Moscow?

Russian-English temperature Boris Filanovsky Date of publication: October 13, 1999 An exceptionally promising area of ​​authentic performance: traditional ensembles from distant eras are considered by modern composers in the same way as contemporary music ensembles with an unusual composition, for which it is necessary to create a repertoire. At the Second Early Music Festival in St. Petersburg there was one hint of this direction: “Nipson” by John Tavener (b. 1944).

The anniversary competition "Teacher of the Year" has ended Lev Moskovkin Date of publication: October 13, 1999 By analogy with the American competition half a century ago, ten years ago the Teacher's Newspaper proposed a domestic one - "Teacher of the Year". It is held annually and consists of two stages. 69 regional winners came to the second stage of the tenth anniversary competition, who conducted 75 demonstration lessons in Moscow schools.

Vladimir Nabokov. Comments on Evgeny Onegin Alexander Pushkin. Per. from English. Ed. A.N. Nicolyukina. - M.: NPK "Intelligent", 1999. - 1004 p., Ill; circulation 11,600 copies.; ISBN 5-93264-001-4. Vladimir Nabokov. Commentary on the novel by A.S. Pushkin "Eugene Onegin". Per. from English. Ed. V.P. Stark. - St. Petersburg: Art -SPb., Nabokovsky Fund, 1998. - 928 p.; circulation 5000 copies; ISBN 5-210-01490-8.

IN SLOVAK 170 (234) Projective lexicon of the Russian language February 4, 2007 Name of the century (2) Following on from previous releases on the topic of “good,” I hasten to use the word “good.” kind - quick to do a good deed, to respond and help; in a good way fast, agile. It's not often that you remember the origin of a word, but here it's fresh in my mind because it happened this week. I sent ale to one outstanding American theologian, probably the greatest living one - Thomas Altizer.