Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veto-free "Little Assembly" met for the first time. The same faces gathered around the same microphones-with one exception: the Russians were boycotting the "Little Assembly." The Russian microphone was dead...
...Temporary Commission on Korea left for its destination. It faced a mixed reception. Cried the Russian-controlled radio in Northern Korea: "[The commission] covers up ... sinister, aggressive ambitions. . . ." An organization called the "League of Koreans Residing in Japan" attacked the commission in somewhat overheated English. Verbatim excerpts: "Of course we are still feeling our respects for U.N. efforts in each their positions in achieving to establish a complete independent Korea but ... anyhow seeing from the past experience and the present situation there is little hope...
...north into Albania and east into their Gramos Mountain stronghold. But next day the rebels attacked Konitsa again. At week's end, they attacked Philiates, near the coast opposite Corfu, 45 miles from Konitsa. Government officers, somewhat apologetically, explained that the stubborn rebel campaign was planned by a Russian-Yugoslav-Bulgarian staff...
...Another Russian had the best-selling single classical album. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 sold well in two versions: one recorded by Rachmaninoff himself 15 years before his death, and one by Artur Rubinstein. All year long, Rachmaninoff's 47-year-old piece had seesawed for first place with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and finally...
Pieces of Peck. Hollywood, a hard place to get into, is even harder to leave, once you're in. Peck's "one" picture, Days of Glory, was a rather pathetic Hollywood attempt to make a Russian-style "art" movie. It was not a box-office success; but before it was released and before most of Hollywood had even seen it, Peck was one of the most sought-after properties in town...