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TALKING TERROR.(Brief Article)

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From 1968, an interview with Tom Stoppard.

"When in doubt, speculate. Enter the picture," Tom Stoppard has said. In his ambitious trilogy about prerevolutionary intellectual life in Russia, "The Coast of Utopia" (at London's Royal National Theatre), which requires thirty actors, two hundred and seventy-one costumes, and more than nine hours, Stoppard has imagined himself into the sect of renegade mid-nineteenth-century thinkers for whom the word "intelligentsia" was coined, and whose heady debates about their homeland's moral, intellectual, and political vacuum sowed the seeds of revolution both in the Russian Empire and far beyond its borders. His saga is ...

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