Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billington and Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, participated in a forum entitled "The Case of Doctor Zhivago." Billington analyzed the political implications of the novel while Poggioli spoke on its literary significance...
...Pluck. Thus primed, the talent scouts welcomed buxom Contralto Francesca Friedlander, a Czechoslovakian refugee in a Moravian peasant costume, who explained that "on this beautiful morning I am going to bring you our rivers. I wish you to hear our country, that you should smell our woods, feel our Slavic heart." She belted out a couple of rousing folk songs, wound up with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms...
...departmental professors will "interview" each Slavic concentrator in the new oral exams. The test will not cover a student's knowledge of the language; this will be ascertained from grades made in regular language courses...
Sophomore and Junior concentrators in Slavic will take half-hour oral examinations on Russian literature to determine Honors candidacy, Albert B. Lord '34, chairman of the Slavic Department, announced yesterday. The experimental test, following recommendations made last spring by the Committee on Educational Policy, will be given during the second week...
Your coverage of the so-called "oppressed" German-speaking South Tyrol Italian subjects is paradoxical [March 9]. The record of the Austrian government in dealing with Slovenian and Croat (ethnically Slavic) minorities reveals an amazing degree of similarity to the fate of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule. Perhaps one method to resolve this so-called "crisis" of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule is exactly what the Austrian provincial authorities have done with its Slovenian and Croat minorities, i.e., forced (direct and indirect) assimilation or immigration...