Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow evening in Jordan Hall, the Flonzaley quartet, now the preeminent quartet of the world, succeeding to the Kneisels, will play some "Music for stringed instruments" by Mr. C. M. Loeffier, a Haydn quartet, and one by the Russian Taneiew...
...have been in a great many countries during the last five years. I happen to know, as well as Mr. Hughes does, that we cannot recognize the Russian Government...
...book written completely in an unknown tongue tends somewhat to lack interest. The average American will go docilely to listen to a play in Russian or Italian or French, though the nicer turns of phrase leave him relatively cold. There are always redeeming features. There are the coiling hands of Duse. There is the highly cultivated naturalness of the Moscow players. There are the snakes and daggers and dark shadows of the Grand Guignol...
...this is partly true for the perfectly sound artistic reason that it helps you remember that a Dago is Italian, a Grand Duke Russian, a Sheik Arabic, a waiter French. It keeps you from losing sight of the environment in which the events narrated take place. But an even more fundamental reason is that we like to be able to convince ourselves of familiarity with the unfamiliar. The French phrase becomes a mark of confidence in us and in the extent of our linguistics?particularly if it is discreetly translated in the next sentence. It is just one more...
...given to hallucinations, and that that is the fault of Socialists. "It is easy," he said, "to find evils in any institutional system. But those are the evils inherent in human nature, evils which socialist attribute to the system." He sketched the points in favor of capitalism, discussed the Russian debacle and other failures of Socialism, and declared that, until Socialists can produce a clear-cut concrete scheme, there is no justification for replacing the present system, which has evolved slowly and adjusted itself to the needs of society...