Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various departments of modern languages, and we shall have one of the finest language laboratories in the country. Various new courses have been introduced. We now have a coordinator in Germanics as well as in Romance; Mr. Lunt has long been in general charge of language teaching in Russian. Mr. Rogers is now teaching a course for future teachers of Romance languages which, though devoted to descriptive linguistics and phonetics, stresses the applicability of these subjects to teaching at all levels; this is roughly parallel to a similar course in Germanics which Mr. Atkins introduced a few years ago. Finally...
...feels that the Russian arts all froze at about 1923. Even the best motion pictures were little more than pale imitations of German experimentalism, in the 1930's. And the ballet, "while given lavish productions and excellently performed, is a little old-fashioned. Nothing modern--about 1910 in conception...
...became apparent in late October that the project for the musical was too ambitious for the time available, Miss Rolnick said, although she hopes it can be done some time in the future. J. Jeremy Johnston '61 was to have done the adaptation with the use of Russian folk music...
Died. Georgy Nikolaevich Zarubin, 58, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. from 1952 until last January; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Where he appeared, Western secrets tended to vanish. In 1945, during Zarubin's tenure as first Soviet Ambassador to Canada, Russian Embassy Clerk Igor Gouzenko defected and revealed the existence of a Red spy ring that had vacuumed Canada for strategic information, had shipped samples of pure Uranium 235 off to Moscow. Officially, Zarubin was cleared of complicity in the case. While he served in Washington, the U.S. Government occasionally expelled segments of his staff for espionage...
BIGGEST U.S.-RUSSIAN DEAL in past decade will send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...