Word: russias
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Poland has been earnestly Catholic for more than 1,000 years, Rome's eastern bulwark against Mongols, Turks and Orthodox Russia. When Prussia, Russia and Austria carved Poland out of existence in three 18th century partitions, the nation's language and culture were kept alive within the spiritual fortress of the Roman Catholic Church until an independent Poland was re-created after World...
...national teams of East and West Germany, Russia, Canada, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway will compete, plus the American team and club teams that make the qualifying times...
...often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior citizens' center and attempting to keep Moses ideologically pure in materialistic America. Harassed by the contradictory demands of profession, middle-class responsibilities, nostalgia for old political ideals and the desire...
...calls a "prologue," The Winds of War, an 885-page novel published in 1971. In that book the action was carried on the square shoulders of a Navy career officer named Victor ("Pug") Henry, whose pre-Pearl Harbor experiences swept him through Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia and Churchill's Britain before the U.S. joined...
...event which should not be missed--if only because the group is not in the area very often--is the Yale Russian Chorus concert this Saturday afternoon. Some of the most somber, powerful and beautiful music for voices was written in Russia, and live performances of such works are much harder to come by than the many records of Russian songs and choral music. Why Harvard's choral groups don't explore this literature occasionally is beyond me. In any event, the Yale Russian Chorus will be at Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square...