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When the Pacifist Council asked Russian-born Professor of Psychology Pitirim A. Sorokin to be their consultant, he declined. Even though he had come to the U.S. three decades earlier, he said his Russian background made him an inappropriate choice for the position...
Weiss’s piece, “The Four Temperaments,” was originally choreographed by Balanchine, the Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer who moved ballet away from fairy tales and fluffy tutus and instead emphasized balance and angular, technical movement...
...EAST-WEST After World War II, a Russian-born doctor and his French wife accept an invitation to help rebuild the U.S.S.R.--and enter into decades of police-state agony. Director Regis Wargnier's film is a great, gray epic of despair and survival...
DIED. LILA KEDROVA, 82, Russian-born actress who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek; in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario...
...secret, says Sergey Brin, 26, Google's Russian-born co-founder, is its unique search technology. In a kind of high-tech popularity contest, Google ranks search results not by how frequently or prominently the search term appears on a given page but by how often other pages on the Web link to the page with reference to that term. As a safety measure, Google also analyzes the words around the link to make sure they're relevant to the original query...