Word: russian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leningrad library contained one-of-a-kindhistorical documents and is akin to the Library ofCongress in its importance, said Marshall Goldman,associate director of the Russian Research Center."The fire is not only a tragedy for the SovietUnion, but for any scholar," he said...
...speech before the Soviet Union's Academyof Sciences, a Russian scholar, D.S. Likhachev,charged that library officials initially attemptedto conceal the extent of the damage by bringing ina bulldozer to clear debris quickly. "They triedto minimize the cultural losses in the most coarsefashion," he said...
...last night is any indicator, the Russian hockey team won't have to worry much about the Americans...a not-too-polished Harvard squad dumped the Olympians...
Glasnost has arrived not a minute too soon. The vigorous turmoil that has marked Western composition for the past two decades has left hardly a scratch across the dutiful Russian visage. True, there have been a few dated "experimental" pieces of the wail-and-swoop school that, if expressed orthographically, would look like ! cents* ! and to which the audience reaction is generally zzzzzzz, and some younger Soviet composers have flirted with newer techniques, such as minimalism. But most of the music heard last week mines the same tractor-factory-and-singing-peasant vein that the Soviets have been exploring...
...massed fortissimos of the full orchestra. Soviet music tends to have a program, even when it is hidden; enforced orthodoxy has driven content underground. One of the goals of musical glasnost should be to bring it to the surface again. Historically, few national schools are as expressive as the Russian, and few have more to be expressive about. Open to new sounds and new techniques, Soviet music may once again grow in stature...