Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the committee includes, as the woman churchgoer noted, Russia's Archbishop Nikodim, the bearded Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Ladoga, fundamentalist Protestant leaders also descended on Tulsa for a headon, pulpit-pounding, old-time religious confrontation...
...respected French biologist, who carries out his parapsychological research under the pseudonym "Andrew Robinson" to avoid professional ridicule, recently claimed that his complicated electronic rigs suggest the possibility of communication between men and mice. Even Russia has its psychic expert: Dr. Leonid L. Vasiliev of the University of Leningrad, whose Mysterious Phenomena of the Human Psyche has become a bestseller in the Soviet Union...
...liked to believe," says Hardy, "that the younger generation growing up would transform the situation until a Leningrad writer told me: That's where you are wrong. [The older neo-Stalinists] are dreadfully mistaken, but you can struggle against them because they believe in something. The younger ones coming up believe in nothing-except their own power and privilege.' It is a bleak thought, the older bureaucrats poisoned with Stalinism, the younger with cynicism...
...Dyck and Jordaens worked side by side on the Rubens ceiling pieces for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The Jordaens show itself is also a major achievement in assemblage. Paintings were loaned by Queen Elizabeth, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy, the Prado, and Rumania's Brukenthal Museum. Even Leningrad's Hermitage contributed...
...small work: brief scenes that allow little sustained action, a lean plot, and a theme that's nothing to write home about. It is more a character study than a play--the story of two teen-age boys and a girl who escape death during the tragic siege of Leningrad only to become failures as adults...