Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandfather was born in Kiev," I said...
...Polish nobility, and his father was a well-to-do pharmacist in Baku. Andrei Yanuarevich, as he was called, was a spoiled young dandy who liked to dance, dress well, and take full advantage of his middle-class social position. He wanted to be a lawyer, but at Kiev University in those turbulent years at the turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. In the abortive 1905 revolution, Vishinsky was arrested along with...
There was the Intourist guide in Kiev, giving me a steely grin of mock solicitude a few minutes after we met and murmuring: "And do you think Senator McCarthy will really be able to prove your last President was a traitor secretly helping...
Bayreuth had not dared do Tannhäuser since Toscanini's unforgettable version 24 years ago. But brothers Wieland and Wolfgang, who will dare anything, decided the old Venusberg needed some drastic new landscaping. They hired fast-rising, Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When...
April: Pravda will announce that Vyaslav Molotov has been arrested as an "enemy of the state." Enthusiastic spontaneous demonstrations in the Kiev sector will follow. After a suitable period, Molotov will confess to having been in the pay of the German General Staff since he negotiated the non-aggression pact of 1939. He will admit having suggested the Marshall Plan and NATO to Western diplomats. The Chicago Tribune will comment on the fakery of the purge, right above an editorial in which Truman and Acheson are blamed for China's loss. Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song" will turn...