Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pattison admitted that the Revolution was a turning point, but questioned whether that made it necessarily good. The U. S. "plundered" the continent, he claimed, and added that American Democracy had its roots in Locke and the British revolution of the 17th century. Even Watt, he said, "was neither Russian nor American...
...retrospective show contained a pitifully small sampling of Marcks's early work. The Nazis had melted some of it down for shell-case metal. More had been destroyed when an Allied bomb wiped out his Berlin studio in 1944, and still more when Russian troops arrived in the Mecklenburg town where he had begun some, new work. The Russians smashed the new work, as if Marcks had been Hitler's pampered...
Last week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to prevent his name from being attached to a composition which he did not write...
Four stay-at-home Russian composers -Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nicolas Miaskovsky-also had a bad day in court last week. They had demanded an injunction against 20th Century-Fox for using snatches of their music in The Iron Curtain (exposing the Soviet spy ring in Canada). Said the four: using their music that way might give somebody the idea they were disloyal to their country. A lower court had already refused the injunction. Last week, the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division turned it down...
Slave Labor. In Brunswick, Germany, a skier who had accidentally crossed into the Soviet zone reported that he had been held in custody for two days while the Russian soldiers made him give them skiing lessons...