Word: slavicize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present, it is necessary to emphasize the main point which got lost in Tuesday's shuffle. From any point of view but the one which claims late Romantic and Slavic music as superior to all others, there is no defense for the programs which have been aired in Symphony Hall for the last four weeks...
...vogue of Slavic music is definitely past; for Koussevitzky to make as much money out of Tchaikovsky as Freddy Martin is a form of disrespect for his audience. The celebration, with much pomp, of the eightieth birthday of a composer who stopped writing 20 years ago, and whose acceptability has been constantly sinking since, is not in the best of taste: let the poor...
...gravitation of the Baltic nations to Russia is only the natural union at the Slavic peoples, and cannot be averted. If the western nations would keep out of Russia's sphere of influence in the Balkans and recognize that fact, the stability of Europe's politics would again be restored...
...years the dynamic Germans pushed the Slavic peoples eastward, across the Spree, across the Oder, out of Pomerania and Silesia, out of the flatlands of East Prussia. Now Germans-at least ten million of them-were losing their lands to Slavs...
Europe's 175,000 Wends (also known as Lusatian Serbs) are an ancient Slavic people who settled in Germany more than 1,000 years ago. Many of them now live on islands in the Spree River and its web of channels; they are chiefly eel fishermen and cucumber growers (a common Spree-wald salutation is: "Have a cucumber...