Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polish Pratfall. During pre-race physical exams in Warsaw, Russia's Yevgeny Klevtsov grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun...
One, Roman Jakobson, Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and a Russian emigre, would be making his first visit to his native land in 37 years, if he attends the meeting of the interim committee of the International Conference for Slavic Philology. With his alternate, Professor W. Lednicki of...
Recently, Dr. Bela Fabian, a Hungarian emigre living in New York, reminded Britons of their share in this same upblazing of indignation. In a letter to Time & Tide, he recalled the visit to London of Austrian General Julius Jacob Haynau in 1850. Haynau was known in Britain as "The Hyena...
For over a century, wrote Emigre Fabian, whenever Hungarians mourned their martyrs, the orators "never omitted to commend the British people for their sympathetic attitude . . . Now I read in the newspapers that Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev plan to visit England in April 1956 . . . For many hundred years the oppressed...
Westward Eyes. After a summer of trouping. Balanchine managed to crack the big time. In Paris he got an audition with Impresario Sergei Diaghilev, also an emigre, who hired the troupe on the spot.