Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remedy: mass dismissal of surplus, lazy and unskilled workmen. In effect, he tacitly confessed that the price of Communist full employment is intolerably low productivity and a uniform level of poverty. A handful of hardcore Stalinists who have never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's lack of reverence for Russian economic and political practice fought the proposal bitterly, but in the end Gomulka carried the day. At Nowa Huta 800 men have already been fired, and another 3,200 will be laid off during the next year. Hundreds of other Polish factories plan similar cuts...
...past. His slim body was ramrod-erect, a prim, Hitler-like mustache decorated his face. On his left cheek were the proud, ugly scars of old duels. After his Heidelberg student days, Zind had become a Nazi Storm Trooper, then a reserve captain in the Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Back in Offenburg after the war, he was first barred from his old teaching post by the Allies, but in 1948 he got his job back as a mathematics and biology teacher at Grimmelshausen Gymnasium (secondary school). He became head of the local sports club. But unlike the millions...
...Germans bowed to the Soviet request for such useful (but officially "nonstrategic") West German products as mining and steel equipment, machine tools, heavy forges. The Soviets also won the right to establish a regular trade mission (estimated staff: 60) in Cologne, though the West Germans fended off Russian demands for consulates in major cities. The Soviet "concession" in exchange: a verbal promise to give "benevolent" consideration to the repatriation of all Germans (and their families) who held citizenship before June 22, 1941, the day Hitler invaded Russia. The German embassy in Moscow has 80,000 applications on file...
...nearly ten minutes the bravos echoed through the cavernous hall; finally the judges, in violation of the contest rules, permitted Cliburn to return to the stage for a second bow. Then the orchestra rose and joined the ovation. Backstage, the jurors, including famed Russian Pianist Emil Gilels, embraced Cliburn. Alexander Goldenweiser, octogenarian dean of Russian pianists, kept repeating one word: "Genius!" Hearing the news, the New York Philharmonic promptly signed Cliburn for four Manhattan concerts in the winter...
...Shreveport, La., the son of an oil executive, Cliburn grew up in Kilgore, Texas, studied the piano with his mother, a onetime concert pianist named Rilda Bee. He had no other training until he enrolled at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music in 1951 to study with Russian-born Teacher Rosina Lhevinne. He won the Leventritt Award for young pianists in 1954, and as a result made his debut with the New York Philharmonic to glowing reviews. But like many another promising young U.S. instrumentalist, he promptly dropped out of sight on the smalltime recital circuit, found himself playing...