Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anyone can begin to dance at Harvard and Radcliffe," claims a brochure on dance here, and while this may be true, things look, pretty bleak for the polished prima ballerina. Offerings in dance are eclectic (Russian conditioning, mime, kabuki) and the selection is very limited. But many women (and a steadily increasing number of men) turn out to unwind twice a week in the afternoon beginning and intermediate modern dance classes in the Radcliffe Gym. Last year, the over-crowded, understaffed, ill-equipped gym was the scene of too many chaotic sessions; and so to facilitate teaching and ensure some...
Recently, in fact, U.S. and Russian seismologists have quietly-and correctly-forecast several other earthquakes. In China, where the understanding of earthquakes has become an important national goal, ten quakes are said to have been accurately predicted in the past few years. Before two large recent quakes, the government confidently issued public warnings and evacuated vulnerable areas. Buoyed by their rapid progress in forecasting, scientists are already talking about an even more exciting possibility: actually taming the more destructive convulsions of the earth. "We can't start next year," says Geologist Healy, "but it's not a Buck...
...effectiveness - should make Americans more attentive to it, not less. To a great extent, a people's language is its civilization, the collective storage system of a tribe. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who knows something of the totalitarian uses of language, has said that he studies the words in his Russian dictionary "as if they were precious stones, each so precious that I would not exchange one for another." Another Russian exile, Vladimir Nabokov, has the same curator's love of words...
...lives, in fact, provide a more poignant illustration of those contradictions than that of the Soviet composer who died at 68 of heart disease outside Moscow. Along with Stravinsky and Prokofiev, Shostakovich was one of the masters of contemporary Russian music. Throughout his long creative life, his works went in and out of capricious official favor with a regularity that Shostakovich must have found dispiriting as well as baffling. His First Symphony, written in 1925 when he was 18, revealed such mastery of orchestration and startling harmonic originality that his reputation was immediately established. He believed in the ideals...
...James' The Golden Bowl. Depressed by the breadlines in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) he is reassured by a chauvinist from Calcutta: "You call those bread queues? In Calcutta, we have bread queues twice as long as that." During the long, icy trip across Siberia, Theroux is befriended by a Russian who wants to hear all about North American hockey teams, including the "Bostabroons, Do-ront Mupplekhleef, Mondroolkanadeens and Cheegago Blekaks...