Word: slava
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City and funded by donations and book sales, continues to expand, and now has about 700,000 members outside the U.S. In some places, its uniquely American flavor takes getting used to. "The first time I read the Twelve Steps, I thought, 'This is pure imperialism,'" says Slava, a Russian woman who has been sober for more than five years. A South African member who attended last weekend's San Diego convention said the only place there was no apartheid in South Africa during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention...
Music and joy have always been "Slava" Rostropovich's great goals, but he is also remarkable for his repeated refusals to bow down before the Kremlin. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came under fire for his books on the Soviet Gulag, Rostropovich took him into his house. He also wrote a letter attacking the censors who banned Solzhenitsyn's work. "For 48 hours after I wrote that letter," Rostropovich recalls, "Galina did not sleep but cried. She told me, 'You have the right to destroy yourself, but what right do you have to destroy my life and the lives of your daughters...