Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostess, Mrs. Charles E. Bohlen, wife of the U.S. Ambassador. Beaming at their head was round-polled Nikita Khrushchev, 61, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier, now electrical-power boss; cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko, looking for once as if he had not an enemy in sight...
...Premier Bulganin. Wistful and out of place in his distinctly subordinate role, goateed Nikolai Bulganin looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...
...keep audiences happy. But planning a program seems to them rather like planning a menu. If the artist does not include something from contemporary life, it is like leaving out the meat and potatoes. Their career in contemporary music got its impetus from the fact that they are of Armenian descent. While still a student at Juilliard, in 1942, Maro had to prepare a concerto and chose Aram Khachaturian's now-famed Piano Concerto ("because he was an Armenian"), gave it its U.S. premiere. The concerto was an instant hit and Maro took it on a cross-country tour...
...result of that excursion into contemporary music, the Ajemians began to meet composers, notably Boston's Alan Hovhaness (who is half-Armenian, half-Scottish). They felt sorry for "the poor composer who knocks himself out writing new music and then can't hear it played...
...present the College offers only one graduate course in Armenian, given by Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, "We are abysmal in our ignorance of Armenian history," Frye said at last night's meeting...