Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a funny and inventive play. It includes all sorts of comic devices, from the broadest of slapstick to sly, finely-timed lines. The Harvard Dramatic Club production, which opened the Loeb season last night, adds a few more touches; lavish make-up (especially emphasizing Gogol's nose fixation) and underlings with Brooklyn accents. The result is an often hilarious evening, which suffers only occasionally from tedious repetition of obvious jokes...
...during the 18th and 19th centuries. But Buber is best known for his philosophy of dialogue. It is not only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers-among them, Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Orthodoxy's Nikolai Berdyaev, Protestants Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. To Reinhold Niebuhr, he is "the greatest living Jewish philosopher." Dag Hammarskjold was Buber's disciple and Swedish translator...
...metallurgical engineer whom Khrushchev plucked from an obscure job in the Ukraine little more than a decade ago. Brezhnev will now probably give up the merely ceremonial functions of the Soviet presidency, take over as taskmaster of heavy industry and armaments. The second new secretary is Ukrainian Party Boss Nikolai Podgorny, 60, who is expected to take over the supervision of party cadres...
...tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their ideas about Americans in general and Mr. Dulles in particular." On a memorable October day he flew to the Crimea and a first meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. After some 19 toasts and some hard talk on NATO, Pearson and three aides marched straight, heads up, to their car, noted with pride that they left their hosts in worse condition than they were...
...from Moscow. Both Hines and London have sung the role there, and both now claim to be about to make a recording of the opera with the Bolshoi company. Khrushchev himself applauded London, but last week, when Hines sang his Grand Guignol Boris at the Met, Soviet U.N. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko came backstage and said, "You are Boris...