Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shea, a mid-career student at the K-School and spokesman for the Committee to let El Salvador be El Salvador, said yesterday that the Committee recently sent letters to Reagan and to entertainer Frank Sinatra, who starred in the show, commending them both for their recommendation that Russia stay out of Poland, but suggesting that the U.S. do the same in El Salvador...
DIED. Ayn Rand, 77, novelist and essayist, whose opinions inspired generations of conservatives, irritated liberals and entertained millions; in Manhattan. Born in Russia and educated at the University of Leningrad, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 and wrote the bestselling 1943 novel The Fountainhead, the story of an architect's uncompromising integrity. Yet her distinctive views were perhaps best summarized in the title of a 1965 work, The Virtue of Selfishness...
...World War III could come about touches on the irrational, which is history as it endlessly reveals itself: "A vicious circle develops as each side suspects the other of superior technical performance. Lacking any means to validate this performance, the claims become even more outrageous and expensive ... In Russia, where the spirit and practice of the Potemkin village (a false front, as in motion picture sets) still lives, the national mania for secrecy only makes the problem worse. The possibilities are endless, as is the expense. Even more dangerous is a national leader believing the illusions...
...diverse social and ethnic groups. When [President Leonid] Brezhnev goes, his successors will face two choices. They can keep making outlandish appropriations for defense and engaging in global adventures, or they can face up to their internal problems, turning away from military expansionism toward reform of the domestic system. Russia has experienced throughout its history periods when the government had to turn inward to cope with its problems. The idea that the greatness of the country was achieved not on foreign battlefields but by building the society from within has fresh proponents today. But if Brezhnev's successors...
Three stories illustrate the lives of the poor in czarist Russia. In Chelm, some imbecilic peasants play tricks on the village naif (Jack Gilford). For sage advice the victim consults the local, and unfunny, rabbi: "Why is the sea salty?" "Because of the herrings who live in it.'' In The Bandit, Gilford plays Aleichem himself, terrified by a thief, then retelling his role, à la Falstaff, as heroic. In The High School, the longest and most didactic episode, Gilford plays a domineering and ignorant father whose son is anxious to leave the ghetto for the new century. Between...