Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lazar Berman's American debut was eagerly awaited, since the fory-five year old Russian pianist had already acquired a prodigious reputation in the east, and it was received, just last month, with universal raves. The five recordings which have just been released to coincide with his ongoing tour reveal him as a pianist who has absolutely everything...
Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is a past master of give and take, Russian style. At one point during the most recent Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Moscow, Brezhnev took a fancy to the expensive gold Omega wristwatch worn by State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Brezhnev asked for it, offering in exchange a cheap Russian pocket watch...
...start of a revolution in psychiatry in which drug cures will supersede psychoanalysis and other therapies aimed at emotional change. To the dismay of many Freudians, Fieve said that Freud's classic analysis of the "Wolf Man" was a failure, and that the patient, a severely disturbed Russian aristocrat, could have been cured quickly with lithium...
...women's competition, Dorothy Hamill and Diane de Leeuw will skate for the gold medal. In pairs, there should be no contest. Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, a Russian duo, have won every major pairs title in recent years, and with good reason. Skating in synchronous movements and precise combinations, they mesh like the gears in a Swiss watch. Beyond form, they skate to their music with exquisite choreography and complete the most pyrotechnic maneuvers with consummate grace. They started skating together when Rodnina's original partner, Alexsei Ulanov, left her to marry another skater. Though married themselves...
...loosely chronological narrative-a series of signed excerpts contributed by each family member-recounts the Schecters' efforts to apprehend the peculiarities of Soviet society. For Correspondent Schecter, working in Moscow meant learning how to make the most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign newsmen) while cultivating nonofficial sources and picking up dissident tracts at park-bench meetings. The children had to adjust to the strict and dogmatic school system: Second-Grader Kate, for example, was taught that the light bulb and locomotive had been invented by Russians. They also found themselves-and their chewing...