Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five University professors will travel to Russia as part of the Russian-American Cultural Exchange Agreement, it was learned yesterday. The men will visit Lenin grad University for at least two weeks at the beginning of the spring term, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and one of those going to the U.S.S.R., explained...
...just taking a short trip this time to familiarize ourselves with the Russian universities and to explore possibilities for future visits," Fainsod continued...
...remarked that arrangements for the Russian trip were still somewhat in doubt. The group is still awaiting information giving official notice of its time of departure and return...
...plump, inconspicuous half-Italian woman (she is his second wife; little is known of his first, Eugenia, whom he divoiced in 1931). At Peredelkino, Boris Pasternak guards one of the few outposts of the "Other Russia" that exist in the U.S.S.R. On Sunday, over groaning helpings of zakuski (Russian hors d'oeuvres) and repeated toasts, Pasternak holds open house for bright young artists and intellectuals-or did until the Nobel Prize fracas. French, German or English may be spoken (Pasternak is fluent in all three). Pasternak asserts his aloofness from the Marxist world around him with quiet and kindly...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet won the Nobel Prize with this big novel that is both a hymn to life and an indictment of the Russian Revolution. Not considered Best Reading in his homeland (see BOOKS...