Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there or I'll know the reason why," stormed Glen Cove's mayor when Stanco made his report. "We'll take it up with the United Nations direct." Glen Cove's people said nothing. "They come," a candy-store proprietor told a reporter of his Russian customers, "they buy, and they go. But don't use my name or my address. With the world situation the way it is, you never can tell...
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (David Oistrakh, violinist, with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gauk conducting; Mercury, 10 sides). An excellent recording of an energetic but empty piece, notable because it gives U.S. music lovers a first chance to hear one of the world's greatest living violinists. David Oistrakh, now 40, won an international competition for violinists in Brussels in 1937 (among the judges: Joseph Szigeti), has rarely been far out of Russia since...
...matter how hard the reporters tried, he said, "I am not going to engage in Red-baiting . . ." That still left one interesting question: Did Wallace write (in 1934) the fawning, fantastic Guru letters, full of schoolboy mysticism and "secret" pet names, to the late Nicholas Roerich, a fork-bearded Russian artist, explorer, and cultist (TIME, Dec. 29)? For months Columnist Westbrook Pegler had been trying to provoke a yes or no from Wallace...
Among other Christian bodies, the Russian Orthodox Church had been invited to Amsterdam. Would the Russians come? From Moscow last week, where bearded Orthodox Church dignitaries ended a series of meetings, meals and motorcades celebrating their church's sooth anniversary, the answer came: no. Amsterdam, said the voice of Moscow, was "mainly political and anti-democratic...
...only real international art show in the world (since Pittsburgh's Carnegie International went domestic) is the Biennial, held in Venice's Public Gardens. Seventeen countries (including the U.S., which made a belated entry this week) sent their best paintings and sculptures. Just one pavilion, the Russian, stood empty, its iron doors bolted...