Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling of confidence and importance, free it from the influences of the better-established army and air force. The navy was reconstituted as a separate arm, independent of the War Ministry (army and air force). Named as head of the new Navy Ministry was handsome Admiral Ivan S. Yumashev, former commander in chief of the Soviet fleet...
...Prince Ivan Khovansky, whose part Met Veteran Lawrence Tibbett acted better than he sang, took his music as well as his politics from the old Russia. His contingent of astrakhan-capped soldiers and gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...
When the final curtain fell, with Ivan Khovansky murdered and his son Prince Andrei, zealot Marfa and the entire sect of Old Believers singing a resounding funeral dirge around a pyre they had built for themselves, first-nighters were still shaky on plot details. But critics and audience were agreed that they had been introduced to three hours of blood-Warm music which, with familiarity, might become as well liked as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
...group includes Bart J. Bok, associate director of the College Observatory. Ivan R. King, a junior fellow, and Uco van Wyck, a Sheldon Fellow...
Objective Best. The result is a painstaking, broad-viewed and valuable study of a vital period in Russian development, throughout which Historian Eckardt does his objective best to separate Ivan into two Ivans: 1) the Personal Sadist, 2) the Unifier, born out of his time, caught in the inexorable process of history. Though the method doubtless deserves respect, its limitations are never so clear as in a book on Ivan...