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...filled by the home cook, with lively guidance from Darra Goldstein's delightful A la Russe (Random House; $16.95). The 15 Soviet republics have an extraordinarily diverse cuisine, embracing the cookery of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, representing regions from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle, reflecting tsarist extravagance and peasant reality. (Goldstein will follow a recipe for sturgeon soup with champagne, a favorite of Catherine the Great, with ukha, a fisherman's broth.) The author learned many dishes from her grandmother, an emigre from Byelorussia; and in her great-grandfather's butcher shop, she writes...
...vivid example is the longstanding effort to ease the plight of Russian Jewry, which predates even the Soviet era. In 1911, American Jewish organizations lobbied hard to abrogate a 79-year-old commercial treaty, largely in retaliation for the tsarist government's discrimination against, and repression of, Jews. The campaign was successful on Capitol Hill, and the Taft Administration reluctantly terminated the treaty. The consequence for Russian Jews was a step-up in official antiSemitism...
DIED. David Dubinsky, 90, visionary president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1932 to 1966; of complications following hip surgery; in New York City. A 1911 refugee from tsarist Poland, he took over the l.L.G.W.u. when it was nearly bankrupt and quickly built its strength until he was able to negotiate the first 35-hour work week and all but ban sweatshops in the garment industry. A volcanic anti-Communist liberal, he also established the first employer-financed workers' vacations, the first health and welfare fund, the first workers' retirement fund and the first severance...
They all jammed into Park Avenue's handsome, red-brick Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign, which was decorated with hundreds of white, red and blue carnations, the colors of the tsarist flag...
...since Oblomov spends the first half of the film either in bed or resisting efforts to get him up and moving again. The absentee owner of an estate that is going to pot (as he is), he first nodded off in the midst of a career in the tsarist bureaucracy, and all attempts to interest him in alternative occupations cause him to pull the covers more tightly over his head. Oblomov has seen the future-industrialization, go-getterism-and decided it doesn't work...