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Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet...
...dinner--and similar ceremonies held in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.--culminated Oxfam America's 19th annual Fast for a World Harvest...
Fast for a World Harvest was also celebrated at Harvard through the combined efforts of Phillips Brooks House Hunger Action Committee and Harvard Dining Services...
...Mattes, the Harvest, Brattle St. "We'll be serving dinner here and most of us will be having a cold turkey sandwich...
...this new release, Young reaps the benefits of his metamorphisis through musical styles. Starting with elemental Buffalo Springfield folk and country ballads like in Harvest, he moved to experiments with rougher edges, like on the garage-band style Ragged Glory. In Harvest Moon, Young returns to his folk-country roots, telling simple stories with unadorned acoustic guitar...