Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example of Christ but also from Greek tragedy: the terrible moral power of woe. Mother Teresa has that gravitas of the redemptive. Whole cultures may be judged weighty or weightless by the calibration of suffering. Russian history sometimes seems an entire universe of gravitas: always there is the heavy Slavic woe, the encroaching dark and metaphysical winter...
Gorbachev may meet with faculties from the Slavic and Government departments and the Russian Research Center, Hunt said. He said the University would also attempt to arrange a discussion with students, but said that no details have been worked...
...Orthodox unity, as well as Dimitrios' influence as "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy. In coming months the Patriarch will visit the churches of five other nations, then meet the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Expected in 1988: a return to Moscow for the millennium of Eastern Slavic Christianity...
...born son of Soviet immigrants who maps songlines in an attempt to preserve them from obliteration by mining companies and railroads. Arkady Volchok earned honors in history and philosophy from Adelaide University. He plays Bach on the harpsichord, speaks several aboriginal languages and holds the provocative opinion that his Slavic forebears make better Australians because they, unlike the original Anglo-Saxon colonizers, have little fear of wide-open spaces...
This semester, the dean attends every meetingof Slavic 155, "Dostoyevsky," and History 1081,"The Roman Republic," stretching out at the backof the room. Although he says he has enjoyed allthe classes he has taken, some courses arefavorites. "I loved Fine Arts 13 and WallaceMcCaffrey's course on the Tudors [History 1400,]"Jewett says. Of course, his selection is somewhatlimited. "I'm pretty much restricted to 12 to 1p.m. classes," he says. "That way I skip lunch,not work...