Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the Coast Guard sent him to Shanghai, where Miller saw a society that was crumbling, in part because of runaway inflation; the rate of price increases that summer of 1946 hit 2,000%.* He also met Ariadna Rogajarski, a White Russian who had been born in Manchuria and had been living in Shanghai under the Japanese occupation. They married, and the young officer-who is still addressed as George by old friends-began calling himself G. William Miller. His bride found Bill much easier to pronounce than George...
Oliveira, a solo violinist whose U.S. recitals have earned him a reputation as a dramatic, virtuoso performer, was praised by Russian critics for the "wealth of timbres, imagination and artistry" in his work...
...Congresses, a huge modern hall inside the Kremlin, presided over by an enormous portrait of Tchaikovsky. It drew 250 musicians from 37 countries, and all sessions were sold out weeks in advance. Said Rosen: "One of the things that sustains you in the competition is the love of the Russian public for the music. There is no apathy, no sleepiness; everyone concentrates on the musician...
...compensation) - the raw materials of a vital art - are banned as irrelevancies. Artists, if they are to continue to function publicly, must either embrace the gaseous platitudes of revolution or bury themselves in popular, native tradition. Chinese ballet, for instance, was hobbled when authorities decided to erase any Russian influences. Folk singing and dancing seem to be much safer areas to cultivate. So is something like the Peking Opera, which relies on timeless myths, harmless fairy tales, for its plots, and prizes acrobatics and mimetic movement...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙Families, Jane Howard Hitler's Spies, David Kahn ∙Look Who's Talking!, Emily Hahn Russian Thinkers. Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn