Word: russian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary scene. There, in Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's antique-filled office in Bonn, sat Soviet Ambassador Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin. Painstakingly, the Russian explained Moscow's grave concern over the first China border clash early this month to the head of a government long reviled by the Soviets as the chief villain and menace in Europe. Patiently, the German listened as Tsarapkin charged that the "chauvinist foreign policy of Peking" threatened the cause of peace and stability in the world...
...forces of socialism." Pravda, organ of the Soviet Communist Party, noted that Mao Tse-tung and his clique had revealed "once more the extent of their political degradation," and the Soviet press continued to bare details of the bloody Ussuri River border clash in the Far East, which, the Russians claim, cost the lives of 31 Russian frontier guards...
Every Easter eve a vigil far older than Russia begins in the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, located in the village of Peredelkino, a residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. At midnight the clergy and members of the congregation walk in procession around the church and enter through its main doors to celebrate the Resurrection. The Soviet authorities discourage religion, but they tolerate this rite-after a fashion. Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes the vigil at Peredelkino in the following story. It is published here in translation for the first time...
...guests upon their hosts, but as lords of the manor upon houseflies. Still, it doesn't come to knives. For decency's sake, three or four policemen are patrolling here and there. Nor are the obscenities roared across the yard, but merely shouted, as in hearty Russian talk. Legally there is no breach of public order for the police to see, so they look with friendly smiles upon the rising generation. You can't, after all, expect them to snatch the cigarettes from between their teeth or the caps from off their heads. The place...
...roster of the great Russian novelists of this century must include Mi khail Sholokhov, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Sholokhov (The Quiet Don) and Pasternak (Doc tor Zhivago) were both Nobel prize winners. Solzhenitsyn's recently published The First Circle and Cancer Ward firmly established him as the greatest living writer of Russian prose today (TIME Cover, Sept. 27). Last week, in di verse manners and locales, important new works by all three men simultaneously appeared...