Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor A. T. Davison '06 of the Harvard Music Department will lecture Monday evening at 8 o'clock at Huntington Hall, Boston, on "Russian Folk Songs...
...interpreted anthropomorphically. The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department of the Institute of Experimental Medicine at St. Petersburg (Leningrad). From...
...Cherry Orchard. This, by all accounts, is the best play ever written by famed Anton Chekhov; which, for many intelligent persons, makes it the best modern play written by anyone at all. It was previously offered to Manhattan audiences, in highly pantomimic Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their...
Sokolov. Arrived at Manhattan last week on the S. S. President Harding, as the guest of the Rockefeller Institute was famed Russian cancer expert Dr. Boris Sokolov, now a professor at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Said he: "Even Death should be thought of as a disease and not as something which is inevitable. Scientific and rational struggle against Death is the order of the day for the up-to-date biologist and doctor...
...meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience. Last week, at Manhattan, Poet Max Eastman returned good for evil by making public a letter from Russian Communist friends purporting to reveal, for the first time, precise details of M. Trotsky's enforced setting out from Moscow (TIME...