Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During the past two weeks, though, a freshet of price increases, actual or contemplated, on aluminum, autos, gasoline and sugar, has aroused some worry about whether the progress can be sustained. Then, rumors of a new Soviet purchase of U.S. grain revived memories of the massive-and inflationary-1972 Russian deal and temporarily caused futures prices of some grains to jump. At week's end it was revealed that discussions are indeed under way. President Ford insisted that the Administration is alert to the dangers of too big a sale overseas but also said, "We hope that there will...
When Hitler's armies marched into the Soviet Union in 1941, the Russian people's fight for survival inspired Sergei Prokofiev to write an opera that would embody their struggle. His hugely ambitious choice for a story: Tolstoy's War and Peace. What he finally produced in 1943, however, was written in an almost schizoid style-part introspective love story, part heroic showpiece-that was difficult to grasp, easy to misunderstand. Stalin's commissars gave only grudging approval, demanded more pageantry and patriotic fervor. At his death in 1953, the composer was still rewriting the work...
...beautiful daughter Natasha. That and the next six scenes depict, with a mixture of passion, intrigue and despair, the decadent social life of prewar Russia. The last six scenes are devoted to the French invasion of 1812. Napoleon struts nervously (to the accompaniment of diabolic fanfares in brass), while Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov praises the people and plots the invader's doom ("The beast will be wounded with all the strength of Russia"). There is little continuity in the libretto written by Prokofiev and his second wife. Prokofiev was dramatizing only a series of focal points in the story...
Among several casts, the singing of Bari tone Mazurok (Onegin) and Tenor Vla dimir Atlantov (Lensky) is solidly sono rous, and as Tatiana, Tamara Milashki-na sings with a full lyric voice that is gratifyingly free of the shrill vibrato heard from so many Russian sopranos...
Sometime near midday Thursday, if all goes according to the intricate schedules devised on two distant continents, U.S. Astronaut Thomas Stafford will speak into ins microphone aboard ins Apollo spacecraft and deliver tins message*or sometinng Like it in ins Oklahoma-accented Russian to another spacecraft a few miles away. Stafford's transmission, broadcast live to millions on earth 137 miles below, will mark the beginning of a Soviet-American rendezvous in space freighted-unduly, some would argue-with scientific, political and frankly show-biz ambitions...