Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT IS MORE, this beginner likes words even better than people. He is no Russian emigre, but he has a distinctly Nabokovian penchant for treating words like butterflies with a giddy life of their own. His conceits are playful...
These days Lefkowitz is preparing for the Montreal International Competition which takes place in late spring. "Everybody enters it," he said, "It's usually won by some Russian. I don't think I'll win anything. I mean, I know I won't. But it's good experience performing." He would like to spend his life performing and teaching. His favorite composers are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms--"deep intellectual composers,"--but he is working on pieces by 19th century composers now, "I've got to try out different styles," he said. "If you're going to put on a show...
When the Kremlin leaders deported Alexander Solzhenitsyn a year ago last month they evidently hoped that the great Russian writer's thunderous condemnations of the Soviet system would lose their authority once he became a mere emigre. On the anniversary of his banishment, Paris' Russian-language Y.M.C.A. Press published yet another devastating chronicle of Soviet repression by the author of The Gulag Archipelago. This was Solzhenitsyn's 629-page account of his 13-year struggle to survive as a writer in his homeland until he was arrested and dispatched to the West against his will. The book...
...Solzhenitsyn's memoirs begin in 1961, when he was living in the provincial city of Ryazan after having endured eleven years in prison, concentration camps and exile and a bout of cancer. A high school math teacher, Solzhenitsyn even by then had become the archetypal "underground man" of Russian letters. Writing secretly in every spare moment, he had already completed his novels on the forbidden theme of Stalinist prisons and camps, The First Circle and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Fearful that his dangerous activity might be discovered by nosy friends and colleagues and his work...
...spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over the English Channel recently, a prototype plane was able to direct an entire simulated NATO battlefront, even while it was keeping an eye on aerial movements in East European and Russian airspace as far away as Moscow...