Word: leningraders
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...that Moscow's Patriarch Alexei has far more leverage against the government - and willingness to use it -than most Westerners realize. The latest issue of the Journal of the Moscow Pa triarchate carries the terse announcement that the Holy Synod has excommunicated a prominent professor of theology at Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda...
...reach back for a comparison to the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who between 1375 and 1358 B.C. built the Egyptian capital of Akhetaton after deciding that Thebes was out of favor with his god. In ambition, though not in tragic cost, Brasilia might also be compared to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), erected on inhospitable marsh, at a cost of more than 30,000 lives, to gratify Peter the Great's passion to open ingrown Russia to the Baltic and to Western influence. Kubitschek also looks west, but inwardly: he proposes to populate Brazil's vast domain carved...
...audiences last week had their first chance to hear a Russian symphony orchestra and to compare it with what they know at home. Occasion: the start in Manhattan of a 20-city tour by the Moscow State Symphony, one of Russia's two major symphony orchestras (the other: Leningrad's Philharmonic...
...hourglass gown, but wearing no makeup ("Lipstick is unbecoming to me''), Soprano Vishnevskaya showed clearly why she is a Russian favorite. Her high spirits may stem from the fact that she started not in grand opera but in musical comedy. She sang at the Leningrad Operetta Theater during the war, sandwiching performances between stints of rubble clearing in the streets. In 1952 she graduated to the Bolshoi Opera, is now preparing the leading role in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Married to famed Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Soprano Vishnevskaya has two daughters, lives comfortably...
...between Communist and capitalist-generally out of fashion the past twelve years -was revived last week. Intertex International, a New York agency representing some 40 U.S. firms, signed a contract in Moscow to equip a $30 million textile plant at Kalinin, midway on the main road between Moscow and Leningrad...