Word: shapka
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...streets of big cities in the nation's cold belt this year are abob with something dashing and radical in men's headgear: shapkas-fur hats. They are worn not by visiting Russians but by venturesome Americans who have discovered that the shapely shapka has the advantage over the standard felt hats: it is warm and comfortable...
...shapka became fashionable in a small way back in 1959, when Britain...
...Song of the Forests (Combined Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., Eugene Mravinsky conducting; Vanguard, 2 sides LP). This oratorio, composed in 1949, won back for Shostakovich the Kremlin favor he lost in 1948. The reason is evident in this first recording to reach the U.S. Strictly old shapka, it sounds more like Glinka in an off-moment than the dissonantly powerful Shostakovich of Symphony No. 5. The performance is rousing, the recording fair...