Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remaining members of the 12-man Politburo, Ukrainian party boss Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky and Russian federation president Vitaly I. Vorotnikov are running unopposed in electoral districts. Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze's ministerial post bars him from being a candidate...
...Harvard faculty members] are more involved with their particular corners of the field," says Columbia Professor of Russian Robert L. Belnap. "It takes a faculty more involved with the overall picture" of liberal arts to create a program like Columbia's "Contemporary Civilization" curriculum...
...other hand, the whimsical Siamese retelling of Uncle Tom's Cabin from The King and I seems stately and slow. The Russian peasant life in Fiddler on the Roof looks even cornier and campier when deprived of the original's glints of fear and oppression. A protracted, wordless street scene among customers of a speakeasy is unlikely to bring back Billion Dollar Baby. And a danced duet from High Button Shoes, cast with vigorous young performers, defeats the whole sentimental purpose of the original number: to demonstrate that a married couple well along into middle age can not only remain...
Despite her dominance on the playing fields and in the rink, the Kirkland House resident could hardly be considered one-dimensional. A modern European history concentrator focusing in Russian Studies, Joslin is planning to write her thesis on the history of imperial Russia...
...find Russian history particularly fascinating because it seems that in no other period have individual personalities--the Czar [Nicholas II], Lenin, Rasputin--played such crucial roles," Joslin says...