Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There should be a hush surrounding the regal presence of Mme. Ranevsky when she sweeps into a room. Carole Shelley resembles a '40s movie starlet posturing to capture a producer's eye. All this merely taps the defects in this production. Chekhov preached that the salvation of Russia lay in work. The Shaw Festival might take that to heart...
...before World War II. When the Soviets installed a Communist government in Poland after the war, the family was cut off from its homeland for good. Says one Columbia professor: "Brzezinski thinks like a Pole. With hundreds of years of Polish history behind him, he is pathologically opposed to Russia and its modern-day successor, the U.S.S.R." Recently a ranking Soviet official summed up Brzezinski as follows: "Once a Pole, always a Pole. And we know about Poles...
...resistance to the Germans, who two months earlier had conquered Yugoslavia. Within days, Tito had established the General Headquarters of National Liberation Partisans' Detachments-taking the name "partisans" from the irregulars who had operated behind the lines during Napoleon's campaigns in Spain and Russia...
...America, a white man had been shot dead in a car, and a black man on a veranda. In Russia, a novelist had emerged from hell to announce that beauty would save the world. Russian tanks rolled through Prague while America made war in Asia. In Greece the plays of Aristophanes were forbidden, in China the writings of Confucius...
Pipes disagreed, saying that Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary might "pounce on and pressure" Yugoslavia in an attempt to intensify hostilities among different political factions