Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy, a Slavic Languages and Literature concentrator, began studying Russian in his freshman year, "as a back door into the Government Department," he said, adding that he quickly became interested in Slavic Literature, and "all of a sudden enamored of Russian history...
Ever since he started writing plays, Kenney says he's always thinking about the next one and this time is no exception. A Slavic Studies major Kenney is planning to move far away from the campus for his next venture. Following that judge's advice, Kenney plans to spend next semester studying at the University of Moscow and writing his next work a comedy about the decision of 10th Century rulers of Kiev as to which religion to adopt. "I picture a bunch of religious salesman sitting around in a waiting room," a scene which he denies is Hasty Pudding...
...visionary only by happenstance-and a poor visionary at that. On his deathbed he expected his manuscripts to be burned "without exception and preferably unread." That they were not was a betrayal of his wishes, and a permanent grant to world literature. To read him as some Slavic oracle is to miss his importance as a writer who could draw out his soul like leviathan. In Kafka's case, seeing the past was a far greater enterprise than foreseeing the future...
...elegantly dressed in pleated, '30s-style trousers, the kind that Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn used to wear in the movies. This attractive, provocative first glance recalls Tharp's triumphant Push Comes to Shove (1976); that ballet began with Baryshnikov's sidling out in a vaguely Slavic tunic and a sassy bowler hat. No doubt about it, Tharp understands this Russian-American firebird better than any other choreographer. She sees the virtuoso and the man in exile, and above all she understands the star power...
...deliver the invitation to Gdansk, Bok and Aloian enlisted the services of a number of intermediaries. First they gave the letter to Stanislaw Baranczak, an associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literature. Baranczak, himself a Solidarity member, whose arrival at Harvard came after several years of complex and delicate diplomacy, translated the communication into Polish...