Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The laurel may be new to Brodsky, who is one of the youngest writers to be so honored in the Nobel's 86-year history, but the recognition of his talent is by now a familiar story. His early poems were championed by such older cultural luminaries as the poet...
A couple of years ago, Karajan told an interviewer that he favored either the autumnal Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, 73, former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, or the vital young Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 34, recently named conductor of the Orchestre de Paris beginning in 1989.
Armand Hammer's memoir of his 88 tumultuous years begins near the end, with accounts of his part in 1986 negotiations to clear the way for U.S. physicians to help Chernobyl's victims, and then in freeing hostage U.S. Journalist Nicholas Daniloff and a would-be Soviet emigre, Geneticist David...
This episode ends happily, and so do all of Frazier's stories. The reader winds up laughing and knowing a great deal about subjects -- bears in northwestern Montana, a pair of madcap Soviet emigre artists -- that most people can live without. The author's loopy laziness is a pose; he...
Many East European emigre groups in the U.S. are aghast at any reliance on the U.S.S.R. With unfaded memories of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1940 and Stalin's man-made famine that some say killed 6 million in the Ukraine in the 1930s, they argue that...