Word: aleksandr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, U.S. Attorney Joseph Hoey and a team of assistants had worked to prepare the Government's case against accused Soviet Spy Aleksandr Sokolov and his mysterious female accomplice (TIME, July 12, 1963). In Brooklyn Federal Court last week everything was ready. The jurors had taken their seats and been sworn in. Within minutes Hoey would begin his opening remarks...
...most dependable items (almost as obligatory as the one about a tuberculosis sanitarium) in the repertory of the young European romantic after World War I. It is the story of a genius chess player who is at last driven insane by his obsession with the game. Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin is an unappealing, neurasthenic child who finds refuge from an incomprehensible world in the ordered clarity of the chessboard. The child prodigy grows to be a grand master and to play for the world championship-only to crack up from fatigue and immaturity at the crucial move of his last match...
French impressionism. Yet, except for Lenin Prizewinner Aleksandr Deineka's husky peasant girls, which Estorick probably bought for diplomatic reasons, the show is not a dismal display of the Russian Tractor Style. Instead, the rest of the exhibition is heavy with still lifes and landscapes, competent, vaguely Western, strangely empty of invention. Perhaps half a dozen of the 82 artists are important...
Private Vaslly Terkin was the eternal Sad Sacha, and his fictional military exploits poked sly fun at Soviet officerdom throughout World War II. Russians complained mightily when his creator, Poet Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky, failed to bring him home from the wars. Last week, to their delight, Vasily was back-with a difference...
...Along with veteran Novelist-Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg. whose controversial memoirs were being serialized in the literary journal Novy Mir. Last week it was reported that the next issue would not carry the usual installment and that Novy Mir Editor Aleksandr T. Tvardovsky had been fired...