Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite three confirmed visual sightings of the third stage of the Russian satellite-launching rocket, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, said last night that he would be unable to determine an orbit for the Communist moon. Whipple attributed the failure to compute the path to "highly unfavorable conditions" surrounding one of the sightings...
Best of the contemporaries is Fritz Winter, 51, who started as a coal miner, attended the Bauhaus where he was Kandinsky's assistant, served on the Russian front and spent years in a Russian P.W. camp. His expressive Dead Forest (opposite) re-creates the world in terms of imagined structure, much as Klee did with fantasy. It is harsh and foreboding. After Germany's tortured half-century it would be misreading human nature to expect it to be otherwise...
Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael...
...with the twistings of "historical necessity." Author Maclean traces the fairly familiar but still remarkable facts of Tito's life from his birth (1892) in a tiny Croatian village to his World War I years as a prisoner in Russia and his fighting alongside the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. The story continues with Tito's years (1928-34) in the jails of what by then was Yugoslavia (he found prison "just like being at a university," and for the first time had the leisure to read and to argue Marxist dialectics-with his fellow convicts). Before...
Leach added that the recent Russian successes have been "particularly unfortunate" from defense secretary Wilson's standpoint. "The sentimental affection shown for Wilson as he is leaving office obscures the fact that his conduct of the Defense Department has not been such as to maintain superiority over, or even equality with, the U.S.S.R...