Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tanglewood. Not long ago, Koussevitzky called him in unexpectedly to play the piano solo in the Martinu Concerto Grosso. During the rehearsal, Fine, who was reading the work for the first time, made a mistake. Koussevitzky mistook his grimace for a smile and stopped the Orchestra. In the thick Russian accents which defy reproduction, the Conductor announced, "When we make a mistake in this Orchestra, we don't laugh; we weep!" Koussevitzky was so impressed with the epigram that after the rehearsal he called Fine to his room and repeated...
...DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...
...visiting Russian artists and scientists, and their American friends, wanted to take their Manhattan "peace" show on road tour. They had a cross-country junket all worked out, and a fine crowd-teasing routine: a little lulling piano music by their star performer, Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, accompanied by stirring oratory to prove that it was the U.S. and not Russia, which was the real threat to peace...
...even shocked by what I said . . . Today there is a very different climate of opinion . . . We have the famous Marshall aid, the new unity in Western Europe, and now the Atlantic pact. . . No one could have brought about these immense changes . .. . but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet government. We may well ask, 'Why have they deliberately acted for three long years so as to unite the free world against them...
...sharpened in Jed Harris' best Broadway manner. It is a vivid spy melodrama in which everything seems a little more ominous for being so much of the moment. It refurbishes old situations with such new gadgets as Geiger counters; it endows standard roles with new wrinkles. The Russian spy (suavely played by John Wengraf) is a cynical worldling whose motive is money, not Marx; the chief intelligence officer (winningly played by Lee Tracy) is a humorously rueful fellow who has a horror of muffing his assignment...