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...remarks about the existence of separate cultures within the capitalist state, and Joseph Stalin declared that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr died in 1934, but his work was carried on by disciples...
...change was still almost invisible to an old grad's nostalgic eyes. But it was getting more noticeable all the time. After years of hewing to the traditional Colonial-Georgian-Collegiate Gothic line, U.S. colleges were turning to modern architectural styles. In its current issue the Architectural Record has collected a few prize exhibits of new college building...
Other U.S. colleges are making similar experiments. On the Georgian campus of Maryville College, Tenn., a streamlined Fine Arts Center is going up, with organ practice rooms, a broadcasting station and a lawn-terraced amphitheater. The University of Arkansas is getting a Fine Arts Center that will have everything from glass-walled galleries to a theater whose seats and stage can be changed at will from proscenium to theater-in-the-round...
Dagger Dance. The Aragvi is named after a famous swift river in Soviet Georgia, and its cuisine is Georgian and Caucasian. Specialties: shashlyk (broiled spitted lamb), pilaf (a condiment-hot concoction of lamb and rice) and satsivi (white meat of turkey in Georgian nut sauce, served cold...
Americans who have been to Moscow in the past decade think of the Aragvi as a sort of Soviet Stork Club. It has a splendid entrance on Soviet Square, a good Georgian orchestra which plays on a balcony, and a Caucasian dancer in traditional warrior uniform. In the big main hall there is an open space for patrons to dance; around the sides are private dining rooms. The best private room is on the upper level, facing the orchestra. (In this room have wined & dined a long list of distinguished and relaxing Amerikantsy running from Harry Hopkins to Wendell Willkie...