Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroic age," says Riesenberg with both premature nostalgia and the esprit of a pioneer who is also his own historian. Next year, or the year after, the center could deteriorate into a rest-and-recreation area for tired professors who can't make it to the next sabbatical-the stuff that satirical novels and Senator William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" awards are made...
...Georgi Vins moved temporarily to Vermont, Ginzburg to the baronially fenced estate of exiled Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish and Vins to the home of Olin Robison, a fellow Baptist minister and president of Middlebury College. Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov headed for Israel, while the fifth exile, Ukrainian Historian Valentyn Moroz, is considering teaching at Harvard...
...fund raisers called the affair VIP Night on Broadway, and it was indeed that. Scores of celebrities, including TV Star Robin Williams, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Falsetto Tiny Tim and Actresses Claudette Colbert, Phyllis Newman, Lauren Bacall and Brooke Shields were on hand for a $24-a-seat variety show at the Shubert theater. Maureen Stapleton sang Gilbert and Sullivan's "The policeman's lot is not a happy one." Angela Lansbury borrowed a song from the musical Sweeney Todd, singing for the cops, No One Will Harm You. Those who paid $96-the price of one bulletproof...
DIED. Pyotr Pospelov, 80, leading propagandist, historian and theoretician for the Soviet Communist Party and for twelve years editor of Pravda; in Moscow. A malleable and therefore durable ideologue, Pospelov maintained his credit with the party through several changes in its leadership. He demonstrated his political flexibility most dramatically in 1954 by calling for "peaceful coexistence with the West" three years after his vituperative railings against the U.S. had triggered the U.S.S.R.'s "Hate America" campaign...
Valentyn Moroz, a dissident historian released last week from Soviet prison, has accepted a post with Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute...