Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cocktail-party diplomacy was not the bouncing Russian strongman's only propaganda weapon last week (see box). Two days later Nikita Khrushchev laid about him again in an interview (conducted without the aid of interpreters) with the U.P.'s veteran Moscow Correspondent
...Moscow press conference, the Russian space scientists cautiously discussed future plans and projects. They would not predict when the next Sputnik would be launched. Several more dogs will be shot into space, said Pokrovsky, before risking a live human...
...tooth marks which are Coward's forte. And when, sporting a New Look, he is very suavely going through all the old motions, he-and the play-are at their best. When he gets down to words, matters are less exhilarating. Using foreign words -jabbering in French, German, Russian, Yiddish, gibberish-he is fun the first five or six times. But using English words-though there are happy Coward glints and phrasings and intonations-he seems to be neither the hilarious mot juste expert nor the acid-throwing enfant terrible. There are false-tooth marks at best...
...Foundation, will solve nothing, nor can the Federal Government "decree the study of science." In Washington, the National Student Association warned that if the nation fails to improve not only the scientific but all aspects of education, the U.S. educational system might be "reduced to a satellite of the Russian system, spinning in an orbit dictated by Russian scientists...
...FERTILE PLAIN, by Esfher Sola-man (344 pp.; Abelard-Schuman; $3.50), deals with Russian Jews, more urbane, polished and aware than Singer's woebegone Galizianer. Little Rissia grows up in Vladimirsk, a fictional town near Kiev, in the early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...