Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safety center, U.S., British and French officers busily recorded the arrival and departure of planes. Off in a quiet corner sat the Soviet officer on duty, curled up with a good book. It was Alexander Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter, a short novel studded with Russian proverbs. One of the proverbs could well be applied to the carefully planned but, so far, unsuccessful Russian blockade. It read: "A horse has four legs, and yet it stumbles...
...Friend Indeed. Dr. Neset Arcan was a well-known Ankara physician, consultant to many embassies, including the Russian. Late one afternoon in October 1945, a young man walked into Arcan's consulting room, pumped seven shots into the doctor and got away-not without being seen. Five eyewitnesses agreed that the youth was slight, fair and high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief...
...Wallace and Canada's U.N. Delegate General A. G. L. McNaughton, Gromyko confided that he hadn't been able to get a decent apple since he arrived in the U.S. Agricultural Expert Wallace asked General McNaughton to suggest a couple of first rate Canadian varieties for the Russian. "Well," McNaughton drawled, "we have Mclntosh Reds-also the Northern...
...deep sense of the sacredness of law, will find it hard to stomach the next sentence: 'How could I obstruct their genuine desire for Christ the Lord by mere formal objections from Canon Law? We sang our old appropriate hymns. I consecrated the piece of hard and coarse Russian bread and the wine . . . Over 300 Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach. They would all go back one day and witness that through...
Back to the Soviet. Stravinsky has not been back to his native Russia since 1914. He has no intention of going back and would not be welcome if he did. But he is Russian to his stubby fingertips, and so is his music. The Communists regard him as a decadent, God-loving capitalist who writes ugly music. Stravinsky's opinion of the Communists is just as brusque: he thinks they are ruining Russian music (including that of his old friend Sergei Prokofiev). Says Stravinsky: "I hate Soviet music...