Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian students are eager to learn about the United States, according to Merle Fainsod, Ford Research Professor of Government. In his article in the February Atlantic Monthly he stated that students are no longer willing to accept the party-line interpretation of conditions in America...
...from Vassily Zubilin. At 7 a.m. one day last week, reaching the end of one important strand, FBI agents in Manhattan arrested two men and a woman on charges of serving as Soviet spies: Jack Soble, 53, and Jacob Albam, 64, both natives of Lithuania, and Soble's Russian-born wife Myra, 52. Handcuffed, the prisoners were escorted to Manhattan's federal courthouse, where a U.S. commissioner set bail at $100,000 apiece...
...pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch in a lucid, hour-long primer, mostly in cartoons, tracing the story of atomic energy from Democritus to Rickover. The title ominously suggested that the show might smack more of Pluto than plutonium, but apart from small blemishes, e.g., giving a Russian accent to the villainous genie in the illustrative fable of the genie-in-the-vessel, the lesson was straightforward, cleverly taught and free of the cuteness with which some TV educators have patronized the mass audience...
...bomb shelters deep beneath the Hermitage, patiently picked away at the staggering task of cataloguing the museum's 2,000,000 objects. The job is still going on. Today the collection sprawls through 322 halls and galleries that stretch some 15 miles. Strangely, the museum has no Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault is the Hermitage's prize display: a dazzling collection of Scythian and ancient Greek gold objects...
Private Worm. Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski was born 100 years ago in eastern Poland, which then, as now, was under Russian domination. The church was harassed; even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over...