Word: tsarist
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...20th century America and its popular music. American Pop would be a nipper version of Disney's Fantasia, and something more: a dirge for lost patriarchy, for the sermons and sins of fathers everywhere, personified by four generations of American pops. One father would die in a tsarist pogrom; the next would become a friend of organized crime; the third would eat Nazi bullets in World War II; the fourth would write Bob Dylan songs for Janis Joplin, and his son would embody the New Decadence, without ideals or issue...
Richard Pipes. A Harvard professor of Russian history, the National Security Council's new Soviet expert believes that tsarist imperialism of the 19th century has translated into the Soviet expansionism of today. Pipes, 57, who came to the U.S. from his native Poland as a teenager, is a critic of Kissinger's policy of detente, which he said represented a "perilous extreme [of] complete relaxation." Pipes headed "Team B," an outside task force appointed by then CIA Director George Bush to assess Soviet military strength...
...military, diplomatic and economic price of any invasion-no matter how successfully executed -would be incalculable. Intensely nationalistic, the Poles have resisted foreign domination throughout their history, rising up against Tsarist rule in 1794 and 1830 and against the Nazis in 1944. Some units of the large (210,000 man) and well-trained Polish army would almost certainly fight back, possibly alongside Polish workers. If defeated, the Poles would no doubt set up an opposition underground. "The core of it would probably be Solidarity because it is already organized and has nationally respected leadership," said a senior Foreign Ministry analyst...
...Street. The vodka was good (Stolichnaya), the few dabs of caviar were superb (from the Volga River) and the guests from the diplomatic corps, Congress, White House and the city at large elbowed each other cheerfully in the chandeliered rooms on the second floor of the elaborate embassy where tsarist Russia set up shop...
Later, in the seminary building-a former tsarist palace-Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, bestows his blessing in a deep, resounding voice and offers a few words of instruction. The candidates stride forward to receive their diplomas and then bend to kiss the Patriarch's hand. Afterward, new graduates, friends, proud families and church dignitaries, assembled from all over the U.S.S.R., dine on bread, cheese, sausages and potatoes...