Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed two brothers, two sons and one daughter on the Federal payroll, lowans turned Republican Brookhart down. Promptly he wangled an AAA position in Washington as "special adviser" on Russian trade. Last year he quit...
China. Yet the generalissimo has accepted Russian money before, and his Foreign Minister Chang Chun was once a member of the Canton Revolutionary Government...
Author Landau believes Gurdjieff was once a Russian agent in Tibet, that there he learned ancient esoteric lore, that he must now be over 70 although he looks no more than...
Serge Taneiev's First Symphony in C is also to be played. Taneiev (1856-1915) was a noted Russian composer and teacher whose compositions have in late years been almost neglected. This symphony, written in 1898, is hardly one to arouse enthusiasm to a fever pitch, but it is not without a certain "perfection of formal beauty", as one writer...
Igor Stravinsky, a present-day Russian composer who has been inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov, dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its fiftieth anniversary a work entitled Symphony of Psalms. This is to be performed again at this week's concerts with the Cecilia Society as the chorus. As a text, Stravinsky has taken three of the Psalms and scored them for orchestra (without violins and violas) and mixed chorus; there are three movements, the second of which is in the form of a fugue. Here as always, Stravinsky's vigorous rhythms are very much present and give the work...