Word: volga
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...exhausted member of the "Nausiev Dancers," she fairly hoofed her dirndl off in a parody on visiting Russian dance companies set to a Volga-rized score from Annie Get Your Gun. Even in a too-predictable "cavalcade of U.S. musical comedy" medley with Julie Andrews-a Merman-Martin act, complete with audience applause to greet every familiar tune-Carol's mugging saved the cliches from being too cloying. While Julie sang dramatically: "You've been in love, or so you said, you should know better . . .", Carol, suddenly smitten with guilt, put bent fingers in mouth and averted...
Died. Konrad Bercovici, 79, jack of all literary trades and 1920s bestseller, a gentle giant with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the Gypsies, sentimental chronicles of the gypsy life he had first observed during an impressionable boyhood in Rumania; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...justice must be served, whatever the expense, let it be served properly. The original name, Tsaritsyn, will not yet do. The current favorite, Volograd (after the Volga River), is a bit dull, although it does. To be truly fitting the new name of the city should rehabilitate a genuine folk hero to take Stalin's place...
...some kind of deadly sport- tensely exciting, to be sure, but still a game. At any rate, the language of the first half of the book makes them all sound more like characters in a hopped-up battle between the cowboys and Indians. The enemy "is coming down the Volga with a flotilla of gunboats." Aten's commander announces at one point, "We'll load up with twenty-pound bombs and take out after him as soon as Bunny (Aten) finishes his tea." Those were the days when military airplanes rarely went faster than 200 miles an hour...
...September 1942, the German Sixth Army attacked and occupied the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga River, dislodged all but a vastly outnumbered body of Russian troops on the river's west bank. Both sides suffered staggering casualties, but the Russian rear guard held on bravely until reinforcements arrived. In a midwinter counterattack, the Russians trapped the German army, which surrendered in February 1943, and the course of the war turned...