Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sens' Interview with Ivan Shusikov has his unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last...
...Russian Piano Music - [Works of Prokofieff, Scriabian, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff]--Mary Carol Commune, piano, Eliot House Library...
...days ago to talk with Carter and came away believing more than ever that the White House has little notion of how to orchestrate developments abroad. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson has called Carter "embarrassingly weak." Stevenson declared that he would like to see "the U.S. stand up to Russian imperialism, but not with irrelevant weapons systems and indigestible words about human rights." Stevenson feels that the U.S. could start by being more assertive in the use of its advanced technology, not only in the military but also in worldwide economic competition...
...laser some 40 years before the first such device was made but, more broadly, also advanced quantum theory. In addition, Einstein contributed significantly to the rebirth of cosmology, the study of the origin, history and shape of the universe. The Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter and later the Russian scientist Alexander Friedmann had concluded that Einstein's equations pointed to an unstable universe ?possibly an expanding one. Because such a changing, dynamic universe was totally at odds with the popular picture of the heavens portrayed by most astronomers, Einstein had opted for a stable, unchanging universe; he had managed...
...often cold University. We loved him-but did not always dare say it to that master of understatement. He embodied the highest values of American liberalism, just as his wife Alla, with her warm good spirits and her wonderful way of telling stories, embodies all that is best in Russian culture...