Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dmitry Cizevsky, lecturer on Slavic, Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of English, also received fellowships...
...clock: Baba Yaga chases Hugh McLean across the tundra up to the Decembrist revolt or thereabouts. The speedy trip is accomplished in Sever 31, and is called Slavic 149. Downstairs before lunch Faust and Mephistopheles will inhabit Sever 1 as Professor Atkins offers his biennial course on the Faust legend. German is required, but the reading list is not too long...
Similarly, Comp Lit 166 will be modified to combine description and the name of the lecturer, becoming "Avant Guerard," and Slavic 155 will be reduced to "Tolstoyevsky...
...hospitable air, rent with cheers and scented with roses, Nikita Khrushchev grew expansive. "I have seen reports which say that we have come here with a motive-for the purpose of exploiting things," he said with a broad Slavic smile. "I would say to these people that we are quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms...
Magic Flute (1791) has Vienna witnessed the premiere of a major opera by an Austrian composer, but under such directors as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Clemens Kraus, it provided a unique climate for performance, fusing Italian fire, Teutonic thunder and Slavic melancholy into a mellowness all its own. For years, Vienna considered itself Richard Wagner's second Bayreuth; it took Bizet's Carmen and Massenet's Manon to its heart after Paris had cold-shouldered them...