Word: toumanoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much a center as a collection: from David E. Powell, who quit teaching Defense Department seminars largely because senior officers' talk of "nuking the Chinks" offended him; to Vladimir I. Toumanoff '46, the son of Russian nobility and author of the original SALT memorandum; to Gilbert S. Doctorow '67, who says that his present monograph on pre-revolutionary Russia may succeed in "reducing the tarnish" on the tsarist regime...
...person who is concerned about the center's finances is Toumanoff, an owlish, genial and relaxed man who occupies an office set far back from the scholars' corridor that Ulam and Doctorow inhabit. On Toumanoff's desk and shelves there are no dusty volumes, but a clipped article from the New York Times Week in Review section called "Can the World Organize to Save Itself?" (on food and resources), the latest Club of Rome report on dwindling world resources, and a two volume policy-oriented study entitled Rapid Population Growth...
...bastards and vulnerable to even the most superficial housecleaning. The first act doesn't work too well, but it does establish the necessary preliminaries. The act is redeemed from tedium by the performances of two local landowners, Peter Ivanovich Dobchinski (Tom Wright) and Peter Ivanovich Bobchinski (Michael V. Toumanoff). Identically dressed and indistinguishable, they create another minor problem in confused identity...