Word: armenian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1934, Saroyan has turned out generous quantities of short stories, novels, and at least one distinguished play (The Time of Your Life). At his best, when dealing with small boys, Armenian Americans, and poets without portfolio, he has won himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...
...considerable tax debt that are responsible for Saroyan's new book, Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, which the publishers hopefully label "an autobiography," but which belongs to a genre somewhere in between Bulfinch and Paul Bunyan (the latter, judging by the final -yan, perhaps also of Armenian extraction...
Kuljian Corp. of India is the product of a one-man foreign aid program conceived by fatherly Harry Asdour Kuljian, 67, the Armenian-born founder of Kuljian Corp. of Philadelphia, a small but highly successful consulting engineering firm. Since 1930 Kuljian has handled construction jobs-mostly in the power-generating field-all over the world. By first-hand observation, he became convinced that to give U.S. aid money to underdeveloped nations to establish state-owned enterprises was both wasteful and a threat to free enterprise. The right way to help a nation industrialize, Kuljian decided, was through "a hand...
...ostensible reason for Mikoyan's visit was to open the Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot...
...Moscow's in-the-know circuit, other somewhat obvious candidates are brusquely dismissed. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 65, the hardy survivor of a dozen plots and purges, is an Armenian. Tousle-haired Party Secretary Mikhail Suslov, 58, the "hard line" party theoretician, is rated too theoretical; First Deputy Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 58, a veteran economic planner, is thought to lack the stomach for the job. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev was earlier kicked upstairs...