Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationalists. It also underrates their guerrilla fighting skills. A U.S. invasion of North Viet Nam to topple the Hanoi government must at times have had an obvious appeal to the military. But it is almost certain that this move would have provoked full-scale intervention by China, perhaps with Russian support. Such intervention might not have happened, many military men argue, if the U.S. had confined itself to a far more weighty air offensive. But no one could be sure of this, and the Administration at the time judged the risk too great. Besides, Russians and Chinese could have found...
Some Western critics fear that the Russian plan would replace the Pax Americana that was established in Western Europe after World War II with a Pax Sovietica maintained by the Red Army. Even so, many Western Europeans, including some NATO foreign ministers, see nothing wrong in at least gauging Soviet intentions by attending the conference...
...less strident than Sholokhov's attack was a report from the Russian Writers Union. The report, printed in the Literary Gazette, charged that Solzhenitsyn had "joined hands with the opponents of the Soviet social system," and that his two banned novels, which were published abroad over his vehement protests, "have become a weapon in the hands of our class enemies." The report even suggested that Solzhenitsyn leave Russia for the West, "where his anti-Soviet works and letters are always received with such delight...
Thus, if a pillow is said to be a samovar, what it does is to be a samovar for as long as the actors say so, and by their use of it, the actors can show the non-Russian audience more completely what a samovar means to Chekhov's characters...
...consciously, no. But when you take a Russian (or, in fact, any) masterpiece out of its own background, it essentially loses 50 per cent of what, in this case, is Russian. Automatically, though, this is replaced by what is American, simply because the company is composed of Americans. And by this process, the audience and the actors can identify with the attitudes with which they are most familiar...