Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenth has the solid virtues of sturdy orchestration and an unmistakable Russian flavor. However, its reception at its Leningrad premiere ten months ago was almost as divided as Manhattan...
...British don't want to capture Leningrad and we don't want to take Glasgow." he told Sir William, who smiled and replied diplomatically: "Leningrad is a very nice town, prettier than Glasgow." The other guests got up to go, but Khrushchev persisted, kept tipping his glass with Hayter's. "Now we don't want any war, and we are not afraid of each other." Khrushchev told him. He turned and linked his arm with Chou's. "Now here's a good example of friendship-the Soviet Union and China. That...
...Russians have launched one of their periodic offensives of cultural chumminess with the West. After its invitation visit to Moscow and Leningrad, the Comedie Franchise (France's great national theater) returned to Paris last week with delighted reports of how Georgy Malenkov, Scourge of the Bourgeoisie, had attended a performance of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme-and had afterward treated some of the cast to candy and champagne. The U.S.S.R.'s famed Violinist David Oistrakh and Pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva recently concertized in Argentina, a Russian concert group is touring Canada, and the Soviet Ballet is preparing...
...measured Lowell House tower, and discovered that there would be just enough room for twenty-seven tone worth, cast in eighteen different sizes and shapes. On October 10, 1930 the bells arrived in Cambridge. The work of Mr. Crane, who had gone to some little trouble importing them from Leningrad, seemed near completion...
...years as President of the Crane Plumbing Company in Chicago, he managed a few trips to Russia. Prior to the Revolution, Crane began a movement within the Orthodox Church to repeal all dogma and ritual added since the Romanoffs. Success was nearly at hand when the Bolsheviks stormed Leningrad. All Crane could salvage from his dream were the church bells which he gave to Harvard...