Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others: Russian Vasily Kandinsky, American Lyonel Feininger...
...some months an important architectural exhibition has been circulating among U. S. colleges. Under the auspices of The American Russian Institute and such distinguished U. S. architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, William Lescaze, Joseph Hudnut, the exhibition illustrates the immense field of Soviet architecture and city planning. Last week, in Robinson Hall of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, of which Joseph Hudnut is dean, the 47 panels of Soviet plans and photographs were standing a severe if mute criticism. Displayed in the centre of the hall were scale models of housing projects, factories and homes designed not by Russian...
...Young Russians today are not reminded that Lenin in 1922 permitted a number of prelates of the Russian Orthodox Church to form a new "Living Church," and to preach modernist, Marxian, non-super-natural doctrines while wearing the flowing robes and black boxlike mitres of the bishops of old Holy Russia. Both the Living Church and the Orthodox Church have existed since then at the pleasure of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. The Government's policy has been to tolerate religion so long as there were people who wanted it, and at the same time to encourage the work...
...trot out a renegade churchman-a propagandist stunt which is not peculiar to the dictator nations but has been used by U. S. bigots (with "ex-monks," "escaped nuns," etc.)-would benefit not only Stalin but the discredited Russian Godless. So last week Metropolitan Nikolas' renunciation of "religious lies" appeared in the atheist journal, Bezbozhnik. He declared that he had begun to feel that his church duties were burdensome, and finally discontinued them entirely. "For me," wrote the Metropolitan, "the face of the priesthood has been unmasked." Thereupon Nikolas proceeded to particularize, naming prelates by name and accusing them...
...smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father's fur business, studied singing for five years before presenting himself as a contestant, sings today in five languages...