Word: nikolais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final day against Czechoslovakia, the exhausted U.S. team was trailing 4-3 when it got a surprise assist. Russian Captain Nikolai Sologubov, who speaks no English, approached Coach Riley, gestured as if he were gasping, then mimed putting on an oxygen mask. Riley got the hint. He procured an oxygen bottle, gave Bob Cleary and his weary-legged mates a whiff. They promptly rallied for six goals and a 9-4 victory, skated off with the first U.S. gold medal in hockey. When the game was done, the man they mobbed was Goalie Jack McCartan, the sub who had become...
...last week, all gratitude had drained from Nikita's heart. Growling that in their reports to the meeting the republic's Party Chief Nikolai Belyaev and Premier Dinmukhamed Kunaev had "lacked the courage to admit their shortcomings," Khrushchev announced bluntly that he would do it for them...
...Etchmiadzin in Soviet Armenia, for two days of talks with Vazgen I, Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Church, within view of Mt. Ararat, one of the traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...
Eisenstein's Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin...