Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edison Denisov, 37, from Siberia, teaches orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory. His cantata, The Suns of the Incas, which was performed in Darmstadt and Paris last year, combines elements of both twelve-tone and chance (improvisational) music. Named by his electronics professor father for Thomas Edison, Denisov is regarded as the most important and adventuresome of the new voices in Russian music...
...agony of conscience becomes everyman's agony as the film, initially a simple piece of village comedy, shifts into social criticism and ultimately into tragedy. As Kadar once said, the story of Mrs. Lautmann "could be transplanted to a Negro woman in Alabama, or a woman awaiting deportation to Siberia in Stalinist Russia, but why should we go outside our own country?" Kadar's genius, however, consists in focusing upon Britko, the best of the typical villagers. When Britko finally breaks down, the social order of the village has reached its nadir...
...last union stalwarts of New Deal days, Polish-born Dubinsky as a youth was banished to Siberia for calling a strike against his father's bakery, escaped, emigrated to the U.S., and joined the union at 19 as a buttonhole maker in Manhattan's "lung blocks" (so called because of their high TB incidence...
...European executives will become chief executive of an American company. To get there he will have to compete hard, however, with Americans sent abroad in the new reorganizations. As recently as a decade ago, a U.S. executive dispatched overseas was as likely as not being sent to Siberia. Today such a post is a testing ground for reaching the top. Says Corn Products International Vice President Beverly W. Warner: "For us, Brussels opens the door to New York...
Japan's businessmen for years have been eager to offer their know-how and equipment to help Russia develop Siberia's great resources-at a profit, of course. The Soviets have sometimes seemed to encourage the Japanese, then back away. Last week 28 Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals...