Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not read or speak. To make the stage action conform to the vision in his head -- the standard by which Lyubimov, an auteurist and something of an autocrat, judges success -- he discussed the aims of the piece in Russian with Michael Henry Heim, an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote the English dialogue. Lyubimov then guided the actors through Interpreter Alexander Gelman, who is trained as a director. The process unnerved some of Arena's troupe, but the result confirms Lyubimov's reputation as one of the world...
...chairman of the Slavic Languages and Literature Department met for the first time with undergraduate concentrators this week in response to problems they voiced about the department's lack of cohesiveness...
Earlier this year, students majoring in the Russian and Soviet Studies program--an interdisciplinary option offered in the Slavic department--petitioned Chairman George G. Grabowicz to increase the number of tutorial offerings and to better coordinate department requirements...
...Monday's meeting, students called for increased communication among the various departments involved. Richard Borden, the new head tutor for the Slavic department, said that the coordination had to extend to the administration as well...
...addition to addressing these complaints at the meeting, Grabowicz proposed a new option within the department. That option, called Russian and Slavic Studies, would allow students to learn the languages and cultures of Slavic countries other than the Soviet Union...