Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algerian coast one day last week a Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
Picasso's tiny Nude Seated on a Rock -curves of pink flesh set against a sapphire sky-gleams like a piece of jewelry. There are lonely street scenes by the Russian-born American, Eugene Berman, a moving little Fisherwoman by Berman's equally romantic brother Leonid. In the fiery Matta canvases colors explode and splash, while the unearthly landscapes by the late Ives Tanguy. who was one of Soby's closest friends, are strewn with strange shapes, which led Tanguy to call one painting The Furniture of Time. The collection has a dung-colored landscape by Jean...
...most immediately appealing work on the program was also one of the earliest-Suite from "The Black Maskers," written as accompaniment to Leonid Andreyev's drama when Sessions was 26, and cast as an orchestral suite five years later. A dissonant, vigorous work full of shrilly chattering string passages and raucously braying brasses, it gives the effect, as do many of Sessions' works, of the familiar tilted intriguingly out of plumb. Also included in the Northwestern program: the String Quartet No. 2 (1951), a serenely flowing, moderately dissonant work that rarely raises its voice above a grey, enervated...
...adjoining Vladimir Hall. First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, that scowling Old Bolshevik who helped the Soviets take over in Baku, led off with an Armenian solo. Then blonde Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, only woman on the top Presidium, danced decorously out on the arm of President Leonid Brezhnev. Khrushchev, after watching a while from a stairway, walked off to the Winter Garden with West German Ambassador Hans Kroll, whose government a few hours earlier had signed a treaty with the Soviet Union in Bonn, increasing their trade by a third...
...celebrate the paper victory, China's Chairman Liu Shao Chi took off on a stately processional round the Soviet Union in company with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. At a "friendship" rally in Moscow, Brezhnev promised that "the day is not far off when the stinking corpse of Chiang Kai-shek will no longer poison the atmosphere...