Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zhukov's timing was neat, for January is the show month of spring fashions in Moscow. Last week, in Moscow's white-silk-walled, many-mirrored House of Fashion, the newest creations of Russian designers were shown (see cut). The styles displayed proved that, barring an unlikely revolt by Soviet women, Soviet skirts would stay knee-short...
There was also fashion news for the Russian male. One Dmitry F. Shisheyev, purported "factory engineer," turned up on the Moscow radio as a commentator on U.S. wages. Said Shisheyev: "The American worker is too poor to afford a woolen suit...
Last March, in a Manhattan bar, they met again. Over two drinks they decided to go to Russia to record, not the political news, but the private life of private Russians. Last week, in the New York Herald Tribune (which had jumped at the chance to pay their way) and in twoscore other U.S. and foreign papers, the first chapters of their Russian Journal appeared. According to plan, they had brought back no headlines but an unexcited (and sometimes unexciting) report that, like any proof that the Russians are people after all, would make the brazen voice of the Kremlin...
...Your own most recent work," the Russian told the hulking, hearty Steinbeck, "seems to us cynical." Steinbeck explained the job of a writer was to set down his time as he understood it. He tried to make clear the unofficial standing of writers in America : "They are considered just below acrobats and just above seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink...
...they found cheerful bands of women picking cucumbers. They were barefoot, "for shoes are still too precious to use in the fields." Everywhere, they found dogged, friendly people, willing to share their bread and cabbage, anxious to hear about America and full of misconceptions about it, instilled by the Russian press. Again & again they were asked: "Will the U.S. attack us?" Again & again they had to explain why the U.S. does not believe in controlling its press or regimenting its people...