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Robertson had recently passed a German prison camp, so he sent back to find someone who could speak Russian. When a Soviet prisoner of war was produced, Robertson and the man headed toward the wrecked bridge across the Elbe and shouted that they were friends. On the eastern bank, several uniformed men approached the bomb-shattered bridge. Robertson and the Russian began scrambling across the river, clawing their way from girder to bent girder. As they neared the far shore, one of the Russians finally crawled out on the bridge to meet them...
...identify friends as Communists. Edward L. Rowny, 68, is President Reagan's adviser on arms control and a man who lists to the right politically. But Rowny is also an avid harmonica player who used to deflate after-hours tensions at the 1982 Geneva arms talks by performing a Russian folk song or two. As teenagers, both men played together in a Baltimore harmonica band, and after one of Adler's concerts last year, Rowny popped backstage to renew the acquaintance. That led the pair to join a benefit concert in Baltimore last week, where they played an onstage duet...
Lithgow will be the first professional artist to speak at Afternoon Exercises in 27 years, the most recent being Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978. No one with a background in professional theater has given the address since playwright Thornton Wilder spoke at the 1951 Commencement...
...came to Harvard looking for two types of classes. The first were courses in advanced Russian. The second were those that would give me the intellectual tools in the humanities and the social sciences I needed to think critically about the world in which we live. You know, something resembling a liberal arts education. I didn’t find what I was looking for in any of the perennial favorites...
Stephen W. Stromberg ’05 is a Russian Studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...