Word: alexei
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...autonomous churches of Orthodoxy are united in faith but seldom in action-especially when dealing with Roman Catholicism. Patriarch Alexei of Moscow sends observers to the Vatican Council, and Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, made no secret of his high regard for Pope John XXIII. But openness of this sort cuts no ice with the Holy Synod of Greece, which prefers to remember Rome as sponsor of the Crusaders who sacked Constantinople...
Pope Paul VI seems just as eager as John XXIII to establish good relations between Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. In July he sent personal representatives to the Golden Jubilee of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei. Last month he proposed that Orthodoxy join with Rome in amicably settling their doctrinal differences, the most notable of which is Orthodoxy's rejection of papal infallibility. But so far, the Pope has failed to convince the East...
...Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts before 2,000 cheering fans, master and pupil embraced, close to tears at the hour of their triumph. After a life of study, three weeks of merciless competition, and a midnight wait for the jury's decision, a young Russian violinist named Alexei Michlin had won last week's Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition, and there to share in the glory of it all was his teacher, David Oistrakh...
...Lady with the Dog" stars Ya Savina in her first major film appearance and Alexei Batalov, who starred in "The Cranes are Flying." For the next three weeks, the Brattle will present a three week retrospective showing of Russian films since...
...bittersweet mood of boredom (in every scene a clock seems to be ticking) is classically Chekhovian. The actors-Alexei Batalov and lya Savvina-are at once wholly natural and wholly professional, and Director Josef Heifitz' black-and-white camera work, while academic, manages magically to evoke the torpid heat of Yalta, the snowy chill of Moscow. And nowhere in the film is there a foot of propaganda-either for home consumption or for foreign eyes...