Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although ground inspection must be the final aim, aerial inspection is at the moment necessary as an initial negotiatory gambit. At one time, when Russian nuclear developments were not so well progressed, the United States might have secured ground inspection. But the President instead substituted "open skies." (It sounded so nice.) Now the Russians, with obvious new strength, have agreed to deal with America on its own futile terms...
...Roman or on Russian...
...continue economic aid but ordered the heavy military equipment to be withheld "until the situation can be more accurately appraised." The reappraisal was completed last week. The events of last winter, announced the State Department, have confirmed the President's finding of Yugoslav independence. Among the events: the Russian intervention in Hungary that brought the Moscow-Belgrade honeymoon to an end and has been followed by "renewed Soviet harassment of Yugoslavia." Result: the U.S., with Ike's approval, will send its shipments of heavy equipment to help Tito defend himself-but deliveries will be made on a "more...
...productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
Author Ellin Mackay Berlin (Lace Curtain, Land I Have Chosen) wrote this book as a kind of sentimental duty to the past. By the time the upstart Mackays had become aristocratic, she herself outraged her Roman Catholic family in 1926 by marrying Songwriter Irving Berlin, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. She notes with wonder that her grandmother was born in an East Side slum only a few blocks away from where, 50 years later, Irving Berlin spent his childhood. With just such a sense of place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors...