Word: mayas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shroud of estrangement from three of his grown children that had clouded Picasso's last years also marred his death. For reasons never entirely clear, Maya, Picasso's daughter by his longtime mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Claude and Paloma, his children by Françoise Gilot, had been prevented from seeing their father in recent years. Last week the same sad situation prevailed. Indeed, this time police were on hand to turn away Marie-Therese and other old friends who came to pay their respects...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, "Ritual in Transfigured Time" by Maya Deren. "Nightcats" and "Thigh Line Lyre Triangular" by Stan Brakhage, "Wait" by Ernie Gehr. "Institutional Quality" by Landow, "66" and "70" by Breer. "Valentine de ias Sierras" by Baillie, "Catalog" and "Permutations" by John Whitney...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. Pianissimo by Carmen D'Avino. World of Paul Delvaux by Henri Storck. A Study in Choreography for Camera by Maya Deren. Allues by Jordan Belson. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania by Jonas Mekas, tonight...
That, to put it mildly, is something of an exaggeration. A talented Jew can rise to great eminence in Soviet society, as have Violinist David Oistrakh and Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, but the ordinary Jew is subject to rigid quotas that often bar him from universities and good jobs. Teaching Judaism and Hebrew is illegal; Yiddish culture is severely restricted. In the streets, Russia's traditional anti-Semitism has never really died. "We may not be victims of physical genocide," says Mikhail Zand, a distinguished philologist who recently managed to get out of Russia and settle in Israel...
...Premier in charge of Soviet industry. Economist Yevsei Liberman was responsible for a brief attempt at loosening Moscow's rigidly centralized economic control, and his ideas are now widely emulated in Eastern Europe. An estimated one-third of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is Jewish. Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and perhaps 90% of the Bolshoi Orchestra are Jewish, as are Violinists Leonid Kogan and David Oistrakh and Pianist Emil Gilels. Nor do the Soviet Jews face the open, rampant persecution that German Jews endured in Hitler's Third Reich. But that is small consolation for the vast...