Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, but they are coming back to a different world. Inflation has changed to recession; the unassailable Eisenhower is under heavy assault; big talk of economy has changed to big talk of defense spending; and the air of smug superiority has yielded to the very real threat of Russian technological leadership. Before it met, the new session had a nickname: "The Sputnik Congress." And it had a too obvious political motivation: laying out party lines for the congressional elections next November...
...spoke informally from notes, but without achieving the desired effect of spontaneity. His major points: 1) although the U.S. is more than willing to go along with its NATO allies in talking disarmament with Russia, it still insists on the points of principle and procedure that would make U.S.-Russian disarmament a two-sided proposition; 2) the U.S., in its determination to match and surpass the Soviets in the missile race, can not afford to neglect such equally important phases of the cold war as foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade. The decisions of the NATO conference, said Dulles...
...eleven countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...
...American, and the crowd's favorite from the beginning, was Cleveland-born Sidney Harth, 32, concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. His Soviet competitor was a talented Russian girl, Rosa Fain, 28, pupil of Russian Violinist David Oistrakh, one of the judges. Only 13 violinists lasted to the finals. The required work: a Polish violin concerto. Both Violinists Harth and Fain selected Wieniawski's Second Concerto...
...Orthodox Jew. He came to the U.S. at 22 to work in a Baltimore sweatshop with his brothers, began to take free English lessons at a Baptist church. Soon he was reading the New Testament as well as the Old. One day he came home and told his young Russian wife that the Messiah had come and that his name was Jesus. She was horrified, contemplated divorce. "Next day, after his father came home from the synagogue," says she. "I told him his son had become a goy. 'Don't breathe a word about it.' he said...