Word: leningrader
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Harvard has not yet received from the University of Leningrad the names of five Soviet professors expected this spring under a faculty-exchange program originally proposed four years...
...briefly left Russia to conquer the U.S. in 1955. Son of a poor Jewish bookkeeper in Odessa, he started playing a one-eighth-sized violin when he was five, supported his family as a wandering fiddler after graduation from the Odessa Conservatory. With his 1935 victory in the Leningrad Concours and a 1937 victory in the first Brussels violin concours, he became the leading violinist of Russia. Western audiences were delighted by his warmth and humor: for all his success, noted a Westerner who traveled with him, he still seemed like a character out of Sholom Aleichem-the little village...
...Russians long resigned to the cramped quarters of Soviet collective living, the thing was a dazzling mirage. There, on a fenced-in lot in Leningrad's Viborg district, was a new model home designed for four and packed with capitalistic features...
...Penguin originated several weeks ago with the release of the Lampoon's long playing record, "The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium." The record featured, among other Lampoon-type-humored rock 'n' roll songs, the Ivy League's answer to the twist...
Getting the Russians into the World Council drew from Visser 't Hooft perhaps the most brilliant single performance of his life-an illuminating example of how creeds are written. It took place in a Leningrad hotel, where he was breakfasting with an Orthodox delegation. At the time the constitutional definition of the World Council was: "A fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour." The Russians complained that this definition overlooked the trinitarian basis of Christianity prized by Orthodox churches...