Word: amalya
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Theseus in Euripides' Hippolytns. Professor Sterlsky played the part of a Cossack. Fear has two main plot themes: 1) Ivan Borodin's efforts to deal with his political superiors, who appoint incompetents to assist him and interfere with his scientific researches; 2) the sad case of Amalya, a withered female aristocrat. Borodin makes Amalya his housekeeper while officials appoint her ignorant daughter-in-law his assistant. This coincidence brings together Amalya and her Communist son. At the end of the play, the son has lost his membership in the Party and, with old Amalya, sets off to become...