Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also receiving honorary degrees during the hour-long morning ceremony on Yale's Old Campus were: Garretson B. "Gary" Trudeau, creator of the comic strip "Doonesbury" and a recent Yale College graduate; Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist who received a similar award from Harvard two years ago; William T. Coleman Jr., U.S. Secretary of Transporation; and Mary D. Leakey, the archeologist...
...Annual 1812 Overture blast should attract throngs into a fully-bloomed Lowell House Courtyard this Sunday afternoon. Lowell tower the only shrine in the country housing real Russian bells, is reportedly one of the prime reasons that the tradition began there almost three decades ago. The group which organizes the event anticipates that this year no one who wants to play or listen will be turned away--they are stocked with parts for up to 20 ambitious bass drummers and scores of flutists...
...favorite piece of classical music. Not surprising, given his predilection for the militaristic. Ironically, the piece was written during a lull in national spirit, and commemorates the battle in which Napoleon was defeated on the outskirts of Moscow. Traces of the Marseilles fade out, the Russian national anthem creeps in, canons go off (at Lowell, a policeman generally shoots a rifle into a garbage can)--all culminating in the peals of jubilation emanating from those vibrant bells of the Moscow churches...
...political genuises, assisted by the news media, had emasculated the greatest power in the world." Foreigners are especially hard on the country; the prime minister of Singapore tells Canfield, "The United States has become impotent because it is no longer controlled by its government, but by its propagandists." A Russian diplomat says, "Most international observers agree that America is now on the wane. The country is under attack by professional critics with an unlimited supply of ink and microphones...
Like the Weather. Corruption and mistrust inhabit any society. But, as Kaiser says, "Russia really is different." It missed the Renaissance and Enlightenment. It draws upon a deep tradition of authoritarianism, and half expects it. In any case, Russians may profoundly fear the alternative, which they see as anarchy. To many Soviet citizens, the U.S., with its unemployment, racial troubles and apparently frenetic politics, is paying too high a price in instability. Oppression in the Soviet Union comes, at last, to be an expected natural force, like the weather. For Russians mistrust individualism. As a people they have a massive...