Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British discovered that at this point there was hardly a dry eye in the Russian audience. They also discovered that there were three other similar pictures current, one of them Shkola Nenavisti (The School of Hate), which was about the Irish rebellion. They found, further, that all four films, although they had soundtracks in Russian, were simply described as "foreign films," without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were...
There were 372 of them in all, on a vessel built to carry 50. They were children and grownups, Poles, Estonians, White Russians and Latvians. Fleeing the terrors of totalitarianism in their homelands, they had found temporary asylum in Sweden but they had never felt safe. "There is many a Russian spy there in Sweden," explained 28-year-old Grace Kupper. who had escaped her native Estonia in a fishing boat five years ago. Soon afterward her parents were taken to Siberia. Now Grace...
...strength by pulling a huge sickle which-when pulled hard enough-brought a huge hammer crashing down on the head of a fat capitalist dummy in frock coat and top hat. For less athletic comrades, Unità made its points more subtly, in exhibits of socio-political art and Russian literature. An elderly Russian woman in a lacy Ukrainian peasant blouse stood by the book exhibit. A young associate explained: "Mrs. Jakobs is here on purpose to translate the Russian writings into Italian for the comrades. If a comrade asked her, she could translate a whole book...
...women and 53 men. Some are noted in their fields-Johnsonian Scholar Katharine Balderston for her Thraliana, Pulitzer Prizewinner Ola Elizabeth Winslow for her Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, Psychologist Edna Heidbreder for her Seven Psychologies. One professor, Mary Ellen Goodman (sociology), is a former Powers model; another, Waclaw Jedrzejewicz (Russian) was a prewar Polish minister of education...
...they are worriers. They worry about racial equality, and when they go home to find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...