Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter, written Feb. 5, inexplicably was delivered twelve days later. Thus it predated the President's public critique of the Soviets for having jailed Dissident Alexander Ginzburg, which triggered the Kremlin's fury. Once again, the Russian response came swiftly. Hours after Sakharov's announcement, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called on Acting U.S. Secretary of State Arthur Hartman in Washington and declared that the Kremlin "resolutely" rejected "attempts to interfere in its internal affairs." The Soviet leaders were furious that a U.S. President had made direct contact with their most eloquent critic; Sakharov himself further provoked their...
ISADORA DUNCAN SLEEPS WITH THE RUSSIAN NAVY...
There are certain plays - and this is one of them - that can be called "blender drama" pureed bits of other, better works. The ingredients of Jeff Wanshel's comedy, Isadora Duncan Sleeps with the Russian Navy, are Tom Stoppard, Jules Feiffer and Pirandello, who seems as essential to this brand of ersatz drama...
...late '50s and early '60s-is simply uncontrollable, you could do worse than spend a couple of hours with Twilight's Last Gleaming. In it, a gang of desperate men seize a SAC missile silo in the Far West and threaten to unleash its contents on Russian targets, thus precipitating World War III, unless the President of the U.S. accedes to their demands...
...Salinger; in a leap from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the 587th person to take his own life thusly. A would-be actor and journalist, Salinger had reportedly felt periods of depression ever since Kennedy's assassination 13 years ago. Said a former neighbor in his Russian Hill apartment house: "Too many down things happened to that...