Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delivery boy. Yet as he stood before the microphone, he swelled as though a mighty wind had rushed into him. His eyes blazed, his arms flung wide, and out of his small body rolled a big dark golden tremolo that thundered in the theater like a Kyrie of medieval Kiev...
...Kiev and Volgograd-formerly Stalingrad-the pace was as swift, the Russian phrases as fluent, and the overtones of history as frequent as they had been throughout the tour. Standing with Soviet Artillery Boss Marshal Nikolai Voronov on Mamaev Hill, where the Russians turned the tide at Stalingrad, De Gaulle peered through thick spectacles at the map of the battlefield. "Ask Voronov how he organized his artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment...
...Valentin Silvestrov, 27, a onetime engineer, is a graduate of the Kiev Conservatory. Though he came late to music, he is one of the most original of the new Soviet composers, has extensively explored the outer reaches of avant-garde music. His Spectrums was the first example of the chance style performed in Russia...
Montague-Smith traces the line through Harold's daughter Gytha, who after the fateful day at Senlac Hill wandered to Denmark, where she met and married Volodymyr Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kiev. The line then meanders through many monarchies-Hungarian, Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come...
Fortunately, Papa Horowitz has plenty of rubles. Vladimir is sent to the Kiev Conservatory to prepare for a leisurely musical career - so leisurely that when he graduates the family makes plans for him to study another ten years before contemplating concert work...