Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one print, a powerful woodcut entitled Death of a Laureate. A hideous, paunchy Caesar seems to gore himself with his own hand. The intricate details that contrast so effectively with the forceful large areas of pure black testify once more to the skill of this master craftsman of American art. More of his work should have been exhibited...
...exchange projects between the United States and the Soviet Union consist of one shot, one month visits. Under the Lacey-Zaroubin agreement between the two countries, Russian and American university students exchange entire academic years; last year, 22 Americans spent nine months studying at Soviet universities, and 17 Russians were enrolled at American institutions...
...practice of living together by faculties, Azrael notes, tends to make the Russian student more specialized and narrower than his American counterpart. At the same time, however, he found that Russian economics students knew more about their own literature than an American economics concentrator is likely to know about American literature. Natural science students seemed to have a widerranging interest in other fields and a more open-minded approach to controversial ideas than their colleagues in the social sciences...
...adviser--Russian students find adequate time for outside activities. In addition to Komsomol, the Communist youth organization to which everyone belongs (membership is not compulsory but so desirable that few fall to join), Moscow has a large number of extracurricular activities rather similar to those found in American schools...
...Bums came back Sunday to their converted football stadium (converted from Saturday's Ohio State-UCLA game) with a split. The teams seemed to have their roles reversed. The Sox, who finished seventh in the American League in batting, outslugged the power-packed Los Angeles lineup, 22 hits to 14, though they lost the next two games...