Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With casual plausibility, a Russian newsman at the U.N. put an effective end to five, years of speculation. What-a curious West had wondered-happened to Vasily Dzhugashvili Stalin, fighter pilot, once (in his mid-20s the youngest general in Russia's armed forces, younger son of Joseph Stalin? He was last seen publicly at his father's funeral in 1953, and a report later that year said he was in a "correction camp" in the Russian Arctic. Other hearsays turned up as time passed: Vasily Stalin was dead in a central Asiatic slave labor camp, alive...
...Russian lunar probe has less priority than other undisclosed projects, said the U.S.S.R.'s top space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...
IRON CURTAIN AIRLINES are moving into Middle East. Czech State Airline started regular Prague-Cairo flights with Russian-built TU- 104 jets...
Birds & Bees. Last year Americans nibbled away $2,860,000 worth of Iranian and Russian sturgeon caviar, $1,000,000 worth of pâté de foie gras. Besides these two favorite standbys, last week's show brought out a cornucopia of new items. Chicago's Reese Finer Foods Inc. showed off a full pantry, from a $300 gift package of 60 items-Portuguese anchovies, Swiss candies, etc., stacked atop a barrel-based table-to 3½-oz. aerosol cans of cheese spread that sell for 59?. For the brave and the bold, there were the birds...
Silence in the Street. Some critics will reach for their nearest Dostoevsky, but Nabokov himself disdains comparison with the other Russian, whom he regards as a clumsy and vulgar writer. Yet, the suppressed criminal episode in Dostoevsky's' The Possessed invites analogy with Lolita. Stavrogin, Dostoevsky's moral monster, seduced an innocent. The difference is that Stavrogin told of his crime to prove he was capable of it; Nabokov's character tells his agonized story to show that he was incapable of not committing it. In Nabokov's world, crime is its own punishment...