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Word: alek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milwaukee. Saw "Clockwork Orange" and thought about getting Wallace all thru the picture. Fantasing myself as the Alek but without "my brothers." Just "a little of the old ultra violence." I've decided Wallace would have the honor of-what would you call it? It seems I would have done better for myself to kill old G-man Hoover. In death he lays with Presidents. They never heard of Wallace in Russia or anyplace. Editors will say: "Wallace dead? Who cares." If something big in Nam flares up, it'll end up at the bottom of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: One Sick Assassin | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...Esther Aisenstadt, who had taught English for 23 years at an advanced institute in Moscow, was discharged shortly after she applied for a visa. Alek Volkov, 33, a professor of piano at the Kharkov conservatory, was demoted to page turner for other professors. The KGB also regularly searches the homes of visa applicants and sometimes carts them off to jail on trumped-up charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Harsh Plight of the Soviet Jews | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

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