Word: czars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evtushenko's courage has not been put to the severest test, as Pasternak's was. But if a change came in his fortune, Zhenya would not be the first Evtushenko to suffer for his views. In the wave of repression that followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station on the trans-Siberian railroad, where Zhenya was born...
...does so with such skill (and without exaggerated theatrics) that even famous tenors and sopranos find themselves in danger of being upstaged in his presence. De Paolis seems able to play any role at all-Goro, the wizened Japanese matchmaker of Butterfly; Shuiski, the crafty adviser to the Czar in Boris Godunov; Spoletta, the evil police agent of Tosca; Don Basilio, the fatuous music master of Figaro. His palsied Emperor in Turandot is one of his most recent and brilliant successes. In Tales of Hoffmann he has four roles (Andres, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz) and four rapid-fire makeup changes...
...wish I were a dictator ... A ruler, a strong man, a titan ... With a ruthless grasp on power and an iron grip on the helm of government ... But loved ... The law is my law the people are my people, whomever I conquer remains conquered. Premier Bernard, King Bernard, Czar Bernard ... Boy ... Then Could I meet girls...
...Britain's music-hall brag, aimed at Russia in 1878, added "jingoism'' to the English language and helped persuade the Czar to end his war against Turkey...
Traditionally dominant-and conservative-in Argentine politics, the military had made things hot for Frondizi last August when he entertained Cuban Economic Czar "Che" Guevara at a private meeting. Now the three service chiefs, Army Secretary Brigadier General Rosendo M. Fraga, the navy's Rear Admiral Gaston C. Clement and the air force's Brigadier General Jorge Rojas Silveyra, accused Frondizi of "reneging" on his promise to take a firm stand against Cuba. They demanded that he fire his Foreign Minister and break diplomatic relations with Cuba forthwith...