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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only bright, he was a beautiful human being," said Slavic Librarian in the College Library Grazyne Slanda, a friend and former co-worker of Kadziewicz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Librarian, Radio Free Europe Analyst Dies | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

Kadziewicz began to work for the Slavic Department of Widener as an undergraduate, and returned from 1981-1984. During that time, he also serving as an advisor to first-year students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Librarian, Radio Free Europe Analyst Dies | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

Mere days, then, after finishing my Slavic 101 final, I found myself alone aboard a chairlift on the side of a cheesy hill in central Massachusetts. Rented skis clung tenuously to the plastic-and-foam boots on my feet...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The First Time: Please Be Gentle With Me | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...SLAVIC LEGACY. Straddling Europe and Asia, Russians have never been sure whether to view themselves as a Western or Eastern society. Judging from Cyrillic-lettered Coca-Cola signs and Barbie doll billboards in Moscow these days, the Westernizers seem to have the upper hand in their century-long debate with the Slavophiles. Government ministers and parliamentarians constantly refer to the way the Dutch milk cows, the Americans collect taxes and the Germans dispose of garbage, as if Western practice is the standard by which everything must now be judged. As cultural historian James Billington notes in his book The Icon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Dracula the screen role is more seductive, protean, and undead than the legendary Transylvanian himself. In Francis Ford Coppola's resurrection (exhumation?) of the character, we see Dracula in his most romantic incarnation to date. Gary Oldman plays Dracula as a Byronic hero, a Slavic warrior prince who slaughters Turks in holy war. When his wife, Elisabetha, hears a false report of his death, she commits suicide, and the Church pronounces her soul damned. In a fit of rage and sorrow, the prince vows to join her in damnation and becomes a vampire. Essentially, the torture of his vampirism derives...

Author: By J. C. Herz, | Title: New Movies | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

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