Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hallgarten Prize "for the best oil painting by a citizen under 35," to Maurice Blumenfeld for a gloomy Daumieresque canvas of three cadaverous men hunched over a table, bolting soup. Citizen Blumenfeld turned out to be a 17-year-old Brooklyn high-school graduate. Though born in France of Russian parents, he was technically eligible to receive the prize since his father has become a naturalized U. S. citizen...
...favor of his Marxian cause-&-effect thesis. Sample: Dasha's baby dies because it was conceived in the muddle of pre-Revolutionary days. Though few U. S. readers will find Author Tolstoi anywhere near the equal of his great namesake, Darkness and Dawn is an indication that the Russian novel may be turning again to its traditional form...
Author Tolstoi fought on the White side during the Russian Revolution, then joined the exile colony in Paris. In 1921 he took the Soviet shilling, enlisted in the ranks and has risen to be one of the color-bearers of the Red State...
...general idea of "On Your Toes" is that there is something very amusing about the Russian ballet and there were very few in last night's audience who didn't think so by eleven o'clock. Phil Dolan, the third in a succession of hoofing Dolans, emerges as a very aesthetic music professor in a WPA extension university, but his basic urge for nimble footing of the jazzier sort will not be sublimated. With one of his pupils he creates a modern ballet which in a burst of inspiration they entitle "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." In attempting...
Volume I sets forth the whole system of the U.S.S.R. - what the Webbs call (in a British rather than a U. S. sense) the Constitution. Under this Soviet "constitution" they find the Russian voting and acting in three separate capacities: as citizen, producer, consumer. In each of these capacities he has a vote and a voice; in one of them he has a job. Except for the steadily dwindling minority (2.5% in 1934) of the disfranchised, every Russian acts in this triple role. Over & above this, if he wants to follow "the vocation of public leadership," and can stand...