Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's long-range submarines are routinely feeling out the U.S.'s antisubmarine defense and detection networks well within missile range of Atlantic coast cities. The no-nonsense evidence of Russian penetration, as presented by the Navy to the House Armed Services Committee, is a remarkable batch of photographs of Russian W class and other class submarines on the surface near Cape Hatteras, N.C., Narragansett Bay, R.I. and more generally "in Atlantic waters." Russia's long-range submarines-perhaps about half of the 500-sub Red fleet - apparently make a point of staying outside the three-mile...
...first glance their respective products seem to be versts apart. The Bolshoi's stage glitters with the familiar, stylized formulations of the classic ballet; the Tchaikovsky's shivers to the explosive hop-stomp-and-run of the folk dance. Most Westerners have glimpsed some reflections of the Russian classical style; 'few have sampled the exuberant dance language of Russia's full folklore. Next week the U.S. will get its first good look at that language when the Moiseyev Dance Company, first major Soviet dance group ever to appear in the U.S., arrives at Manhattan...
...told, the Moiseyev Dancers will visit eleven cities across the U.S. and Canada. If their experience in London and Paris is any indication, their Russian hoedowns will please the crowds, whet their appetite for the Bolshoi, which is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. in spring...
...Nikita Khrushchev, China's Chou Enlai, CBS this week added President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the new United Arab Republic. Well-tailored and suave, speaking in near-perfect English (though he kept saying "freezed" for "froze"), Nasser discussed his plans to visit Moscow this month, and announced a Russian "loan" of 25 factories that will be set up in Egypt. Under hard-hitting questioning by CBS Cairo Correspondent Frank Kearns, Nasser composedly kept returning to a pat explanation for Egypt's antagonism toward the U.S. and its allies: "We are defending ourselves" against "hostile action...
...those who may be worried about the decline in the quality of Russian movies, here is great news. Ludmilla Gurchenko has turned in another outstanding performance, this time in her recent musical comedy, Carnival, which is currently filling the bill at the Brattle...