Word: leningraders
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when our eyes met, the adults would turn their heads or stare downwards. The most frustrating aspect of the journey to Leningrad proved to be my inability to converse with anyone. Even in the Hotel, the employees there met me--it seemed--very coolly and remained at a distance...
...English happened to be anything but fluent, but we had little trouble communicating, and we soon agreed to walk about Leningrad together. He appreciates the Soviet educational system because it stresses discipline and hard work (in America, he suggested, it is difficult to learn because no one has to study). His favorite American author: Mark Twain. His biggest political concern: Jewish emigration...
...Part of Speech (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Currently a New York City resident, Brodsky has been covered with honors, prizes and fellowships, including a $208,000 Mac Arthur Foundation award in 1981. Manifestly, he has traveled a vast distance since 1964, when he was convicted as a "social parasite" in Leningrad and forced to serve as a laborer on a state farm for 20 months. Unfortunately, some other greatly talented poets, including Lev Losev, Henri Volokhonsky, Dmitri Bobyshev and Yuri Kublanovsky, have yet to find translators who will help them break out of isolation...
...contrast, Ludmila Shtern's fictional sketches poke fun at some of the gravest problems of everyday Soviet life, including endemic food shortages and epidemic alcoholism. Shtern, 48, who taught geology in Leningrad, has combined her new writing career with selling real estate in Boston. Vastly popular with émigré readers of the Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New Russian Word) and other Russian-language publications, her fiction is beginning to break into the pages of little magazines in the U.S. such as Stories and Pequod. Back in the Soviet Union, Shtern recalls, magazine editors regularly dispensed praise along with...
...bronze in 1960), summed up the free skating: "I'd call that walking right through the door, wouldn't you?" Wouldn't anybody? On the big night Valova and Vasiliev held their gold-medal lead on a more difficult program. Nurtured, like the Protopopovs, in the Leningrad school, they showed its hallmarks: coolly cerebral slow passages alternating with flashy jumps and lifts. But the performance of the young Soviet pair, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, with whom the Carrutherses were tied, was the crucial one. Though Kitty and Peter had not watched it, there are some things...