Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sounds rather like a Soviet football team: the Moscow Virtuosos. But what an all-star lineup. These Virtuozy Moskvy are 25 top musicians, organized into a chamber orchestra 18 months ago by Violinist Vladimir Spivakov, 35. World-renowned virtuoso himself, Spivakov alternates between bow and baton to direct his skillful charges with intensity and impishness: "Let's not be bulldozers," he will grin as the tempo speeds up during rehearsal of a Vivaldi passage. The virtuozy were the hit of Moscow's Russian Winter Festival and will play for Olympic audiences this summer. Spivakov would like to bring...
Takeover by bow and arrow...
...shift in Kremlin policy took place. By 1967 One Day had been banned and the theme of the Gulag in literature forbidden. Meanwhile, Solzhenitsyn had discovered an instructive fact about the Soviet authorities: "That strength and steadfastness are the only things these people fear; those who smile and bow to them they crush." He harried the enemy all the more. He issued protests, declarations and open letters to Politburo members, to the head of the KGB and to officials of the Writers' Union. His friends and supporters slipped copies to Western correspondents. The documents were published abroad, then broadcast...
...heavyweight oarswomen's aggressive style compensated for an occasional lack of smoothness. Co-captains Kelly Ronan and Karen Spencer furnished strong leadership, plying the murky Charles from the two bow seats. The only other rower who will be lost to graduation is senior stroke Jenny Stone...
...more important when they come directly into conflict. The Quincy House Film Society should have been sensitive to the wishes and feelings of many within the Harvard community and never chosen to show the film. But once they had decided to ignore the outcry, they were correct in not bowing to a challenge from the state that can only be described as dangerous to First Amendment rights. Friday afternoon, after a judge properly denied a motion to enjoin the showing, officials of the district's attorney's office threatened to arrest Carl Stork and Nathan Hagen anyway if they went...