Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ernest Simmons, formerly chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at Columbia University, suffers from the biographer's occupational disease -a constitutional inability to leave out any detail, however trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson...
Serge Koussevitzky played on the Boston with Slavic ardor, kindling it to its best efforts in Russian works or in the epic grandeurs of Beethoven and Sibelius. Charles Munch tuned its voice to the French composers, infusing it with a certain Gallic grace. Leinsdorf, 50, is Viennese-born but internationally bred, and he will presumably make the Boston speak a more international tongue-well-modulated, clear and precise. Although a great orchestra does not change its accent overnight, the Boston played with wonderful clarity and precision last week, responding to Leinsdorf's tick-tock beat with hair-trigger reflexes...
...outpouring of the Russian literary samovar is not everybody's cup of tea. For casual readers in particular, and restrained Western taste in general, it can be too dark, too wild and too bitter a brew. Yet it is precisely a Slavic lack of restraint and a brooding sense of evil's presence in the world that give the great Russian novelists their widely remarked dramatic powers, and place them ahead of everyone else in a less remarked achievement: the creation of unforgettably grotesque characters. From Mikhail Saltykov's hypocritical Yudushka ("Little Judas") Golovlev, to Ivan Goncharov...
Margaret L. Morganroth, English; Vivian H. Oppenheim, history; Nancy E. Phillips, English; Mary B. Taylor, history; Mrs. Penelope R. Vasquez, classics; Jane B. Wells, Slavic language & literatures; and Sarah J. Woodman, English...
Diana Gisolfi, fine arts; Jane L. Goldsmith, Slavic languages & literatures; Emily L. Hartshorne, history; Michele Kaufman, astronomy; Eliza D. Kellogg, English; Judith G. Kirshner, English; Mrs. Marjorie K. McIntosh, history; Susanne L. Mack, history & literature; Mrs. Susan K. Matisoff, Far Eastern languages...