Word: sima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life of her what business CUSTOMS had with her intimate correspondence and assorted panties and bras. She told the customs officers in some detail what she thought of them, and they, huffing dolefully, continued to read our personal papers: "Call Zhenya in the morning . . . don't forget about Yura . . . Sima . . . Sonya ; . . . Lyusya . . . In the evening -- 157-29-09 . . ." My wife didn't let up. I was bored. Why were they doing all this? After all, they didn't confiscate anything . . . Were they just trying to spoil the mood? Were they sniffing out bits and pieces now to remember...
...comfortable, familiar," says Ponanta, the typesetter. "You stay as long as you need to, then move out to Queens, to Manhattan." Assimilation still seems inexorable. "We want to be part of American culture," says Richard Ou of Flushing. The Russian New Yorkers may keep eating piroshki forever, but, says Sima Blokh of the Brighton Beach public library, "they want to be Americans. The most important thing to the new immigrants is to read English...
...Morgan (Fine Arts, Brown University), Charles Briggs (Folklore and Mythology, University of Chicago), Michael Jennings (German, University of Virginia), John T. Kneebone (History, University of Virginia), James M. Weiss (History, University of Chicago), Ellen Fitzpatrick (History of American Civilization, Brandeis University), Misia Landau (History of Science, Yale University), and Sima Godfrey (Romance Languages, Cornell University...