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Mongrel New York, always a port of entry and always a slightly hysterical place, is now becoming even more eclectic, more jazzed up and redolent. Manhattan has a Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park. In the Balkanized Astoria neighborhood -- one part of one borough -- there are some 5,000 Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored...
Immigrants reweave bits and pieces of native culture, and counterculture, into the New York fabric. On Manhattan's Second Avenue are the offices of the Ukrainian National Liberation Front. In Brighton Beach, the best seller at the Black Sea bookstore is a Russian translation of The kgb Today. The pastor of a church in Queens says he figured that one new congregant, a woman who constantly glanced over her shoulder, was deranged. "It turns out she is a Soviet refugee terrified of the secret police," says the minister...
...addition to being pre-professional, many summer school courses will give you an intricate knowledge of the most specialized subjects under the Cambridge sun. Take for example the fact that there are six different courses offered this summer in Ukrainian (the University offers only nine courses during the regular school year in Ukrainian...
...complement your knowledge of Ukrainian, you can take Harvard's only summer offering in Turkic: TURK S-190: Ottoman Palaeography, which "involves intensive reading of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts." Ownership of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts is probably not a prerequisite of the course, but knowledge of both elementary Turkish and Ottoman...
...been drinking heavily, decided to have some fun with Nikolai Podgorny, who at the time held Khrushchev's old job as party boss of the Ukraine and later became a member of the Politburo. Khrushchev turned to Podgorny. "Why don't you dance a gopak for us? I miss Ukrainian dances and songs...