Word: slav
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vladimir Dedijer, leader of the Yugo-slav partisan movement, said last night that in a successful revolutionary movement, there mist be a balance between the "role of ideology and the role of social unrest...
...onesided without some understanding of the Soviet economy and cultural patterns, just as the study of Soviet literature in a vacuum cannot provide an adequate insight into the USSR. Similarly, this specialization has resulted in important aspects of the Soviet Union being completely overlooked, such as the multinational, non-Slav facet of the USSR, traditional Russian norms, etc. Lastly, the material covered in the various courses often tends to overlap. The general value and specific Harvard need for an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to Soviet civilization could be best served by a new upper-level Soc. Sci. The new course, however...
...born Englishmen hiding their mysterious pasts under assumed names. To career soldiers, the Legion is one of the world's few elite organizations, comparable to the U.S. Marines and Britain's Brigade of Guards. To its own members (over the years the majority have been German or Slav), the Legion is an unparalleled string of battles, from Constantine in 1837 to Sebastopol, Magenta, the Somme, Verdun, Narvik, Bir Hakeim, Cassino, Dienbienphu, and Algiers in 1960. Its flag, "whose staff bends under the weight of its glory," is one of the most cited and decorated of all the world...
Generally accustomed to ignoring his aches, pains and hangovers, that durable old Slav, Nikita Khrushchev, 66, took to his bed with what was described as "a touch of influenza." One treat that Khrushchev was thereby obliged to forgo was a tea party given by Mrs. Khrushchev for Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, capitalism's foremost coexister, and Mrs. Eaton. Another was a massive "friendship rally" for Red China's departing Chief of State Liu Shao...