Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dragon. Evgeny Shvarts's classic (?) of underground Soviet drama, an allegory of dictatorship written in 1943. Performed by the students of Slavic 147, "Russian Drama." At the Loeb Ex, April 29-May 1 at 7:30 p.m. Free. At Currier House, May 6-8, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the Currier House performances are $1.75 at Holyoke Center...
Assistant Professor of Russian Literature...
...great grandfather probably answered in Yiddish. "A tailor. Alright, Morris. Stitch is your new American name." Henceforth the man would be known by his product. The confusions and contradictions of the arrival, the harrowing journey from the homeland, and the family still trapped on the Russian shtetl, anxiously waiting for word to come join him, were glibly ignored by this new alien world...
...compensate for length with strength last week when their annual spring performances of Sleeping Beauty showed more unpointed toes and bent knees than solid lines. Nor was the traditional everything it might have been when the Panovs visited the Music Hall last week with the Eglevsky Ballet. The famous Russian pair did have the balance and bravura we've come to expect of all superstars but their noticible uneasiness on stage was a reminder that these two had gone without a rehearsal for a long time while still in the U.S.S.R. The ballet performed by Joanne Hochberg, Lois Rosenberg...
...decayed rapidly. Wolbach, distressed, would like to restore the Tower from the bottom up. "This room, the rotunda at the base here, has potential," he says, walking around the granite pier that supports the Refractor. Brilliant murals signed "Sergei Gaposhkin, 1957" line the walls. Wolbach frowns at them. "A Russian individual by the name of Sergei Gaposhkin--Dr. Gaposhkin--was given liberties, here. He, ahem, found the ultraviolet paint, as you see, and then he--painted." Wolbach comes down with emphasis on the last word, and stops in front of a vivid pink, flaming...