Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more powerful than at many other schools. (One junior referred to "the myth that this is a student-run college.") The administration is progressive enough to redress student grievances, and the school is small enough to ensure that these grievances will be heard. A burgeoning student interest in Russian, for instance, is likely immediately to produce a Russian course, as it did last year, but the situation is by no means as unique as the student body likes to think...
There actually were only a few incidents when a Russian started an argument with an American. Most conflicts were started by Americans...
Thus it was possible for a Russian to meet several students or local residents just from living nearby or eating with them. As the Experiment in International Living, the sponsoring organization, hoped the Russians expressed satisfaction with this arrangement at the end of the stay...
...been to many parts of the world before coming here, and could speak just as well in English or French as Russian on a variety of subjects, and could always be counted on to play something on the piano...
...addition to Radcliffe girls, Vlasenko, with Miss Kirienko, and engineer Igor Makarov won the friendship of the off-Broadway cast of "An Enemy of the People" which closed its Boston run last Sunday. The cast invited the three Russians and this writer to a party on Saturday night, and from midnight to 3 a.m., the whole party was "Russian" in tone, with Miss Kirienko singing several ballads, and Vlasenko charming the gathering with stories of the Soviet Union, and in interpreting questions to Miss Kirienko...