Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence that socialism itself, and not Stalinism, created the world's "bone heap... grisly beyond belief." He catalogues the Western literary community's boycott of Solzhenitsyn and seems to be aghast at the idea that lifelong leftists would not collapse like toy boats at the salvos of Solzhenitsyn, a Russian Orthodox dogmatic and rightist. What mindlessness. I guess Wolfe called the piece "The Intelligent Co-ed's Guide to America" because in his tough-minded telling of the facts and courageous exposure of cant he believes himself the new Bernard Shaw...
...Says he: "I still think of the dacha in Moscow as my home." Much the same feeling inspires the superb dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who lives in New York City but says: "No other country in the world will be my home but Russia. My soul will always be a Russian...
...potatoes. Later, when I had a job, I only made eight kronen [$1.12] per hour, and if you wanted a car, it cost 20,000 kronen. And you had to put the money on deposit for maybe three years, and then you might get a car ?but a Russian car, like a Moskvich. It was their country...
...field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker Ted Hood. The grand notion, costing $45,000, was conceived by Len Silverfine, 39, a teacher in Vermont, whose father was a Russian immigrant, and Pierre Leduc, 34, a French-Canadian advertising man from Montreal. The Arm & Hammer baking soda people provided most of the financing; the flag's acre and a half of bunting with 11-ft. stars was supplied by New Jersey's Annin & Co., the nation...
...signals, traveling at the speed of light, would not reach earth for 18 minutes, long after the little ship touched the surface. Signals from the controllers ordering Viking to avoid the site would take another 18 minutes to return to the craft, far too late to do any good. Russian space scientists can testify to the risks. In their four known attempts to land spacecraft on Mars, one ship missed the planet completely, two apparently crashed, and the fourth transmitted for only 20 seconds, sending an undecipherable portion of one picture before lapsing into silence...