Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortune, Zhenya would not be the first Evtushenko to suffer for his views. In the wave of repression that followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station on the trans-Siberian railroad, where Zhenya was born in 1933. Son of a concert singer and a geologist father. Zhenya spent his early childhood in the old quarter of Moscow. There he lived with...
This week Murrow and his top aides will trek up to Capitol Hill and argue that the agency's budget should be in creased by 12% to $125 million for the fiscal year beginning July. Murrow wants to step up the Voice's current program ming of 730 hours a week around the world to compete with Russia's 1,067. He wants to distribute more cheap editions of U.S. books abroad. He wants to send more labor advisers and students over seas. ("The best kind of communication," intones Murrow, "is still face to face...
...semester entitled Classical Philology 299b, The Culex: an Introduction to Latin Textual Criticism. Among the recondite aims of this course will be "practice in reading and collating MSS, making an apparatus criticus, and establishing a "text." It may be helpful to those ready to embark on so perilous a trek in the groves of Academe to halt a moment and take heed of A.E. Housman's published Remarks on the Culex (1902). THE EDITORS...
...moonshine, Shenandoah farmers huddled over their tout sheets; Baltimore businessmen traded tips with pin-striped Washington politicians. For hundreds of other two-buck bettors from New York and Philadelphia, the day at the races had begun at 6 a.m., when they boarded special buses for a five-hour trek to the track...
Finally, there are a great many girls living in the quadrangle on Garden Street who came to Radcliffe in order to attend Harvard. They want a place to sleep, and contemporaries to whom they can talk, but for all the complaints about the trek to the Yard, they want to and intend to focus their lives on Harvard. For this group, Bunting's plans are annoying in almost direct proportion to effectiveness...