Word: spasibo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spasibo Dorogiye." The tactic of passivity and silence gradually made him a hero with Russian intellectuals and made his rare public appearances S.R.O. affairs. At one such reading, in 1947, a sheet of his manuscript slipped to the floor, and before he could stoop to retrieve it the audience chanted the next stanza of his poem by heart. Eyes brimming with tears, Pasternak choked out "Spasibo Dorogiye" (Thank you. dear ones). At another reading, his listeners yelled "Sixty-six! Sixty-six!", meaning the sixty-sixth sonnet of Shakespeare. The telltale line: "Art made tongue-tied by authority...
...Spasibo. In the city's hottest May weather in 79 years, elite Muscovites peeled last week to shirtsleeves and sat entranced in the same hall in which Pianist Van Cliburn triumphed. Swaddled in white ties and tails, the visitors played "Incandescently," reported New York Times Critic Howard Taubman. The first-night audience stopped applauding only so that the orchestra could play another selection: an intense Strauss Don Juan, a powerful Beethoven Seventh Symphony, a rare performance in Russia of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Quiet City. And they went wild after the orchestra's richly sonorous playing...
Onstage after the encore (Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Orchestra) marched three flower-bearing Soviet musicians: Composer Aram Khachaturian, Pianist Emil Gilels, Conductor Alexander Gauk. Khachaturian spoke Russia's praise for the orchestra. "Bolshoye, bolshoye spasibo [Great, great thanks]," returned Conductor Ormandy amid thunderous applause. And even after the players filed out, hundreds of spectators stayed in their seats, still applauding and crying, "Not enough! Not enough...
...with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book entitled Plant Diseases. Benson entertained the Russians with a lunch of new foods developed by U.S. scientists (including powdered orange juice and dehydro-frozen peas) and delivered a warm little speech: "Permit...
...wish to point out an additional reason for banning the word "Spasibo" in the Soviet Union [TIME, July 3]. Although used as "Thank you" ... it really means "God save (keep) you" (compounded from spasat, to save, and Bog, God). How could a self-respecting Communist use such a word...