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Word: colourless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander composes a hymn to the cobblestones, "small, regular granite blocks of all colours" on old Moscow's streets: "When the rains washed away the dirt and dust, drawing colours from the heart of the stone, their chance mosaic was far richer than the asphalt's colourless monotony." Winter is a cause of wonderment as sleighs move silently through the snow-hushed city. Finally comes the happiest of seasons in Russia, spring, with its ritual opening of windows. "Fresh spring air, wild and cool, fills the room, bringing with it the city's bright polyphony of voices, bells, and squealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speak, Memory a Vanished Present: the Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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