Word: yars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics, it seemed, had dared to see a little merit in paintings done outside the Russian sphere, which "serve the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted tastes." And a brave or venturesome man named Byeskin had even found fault with a picture by one Yar-Kravchenko entitled Gorky Reads to Comrades Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov His Story, "Girl and Death", which subsequently won a Stalin Prize...
...Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants, the Yar; pre-revolutionary Russians still remember the ditty...
Sweetheart don't go to the Yar...
...Lessons of Ashkhabad. Would the Ministers soon consider their visit to the Yar equally unprofitable? If they bogged down in their task of making peace for Germany, there were other things for them to do in Moscow. For instance, they could look about them and learn...
...Arthur L. Besse '42, a field of six bicycle racers sped to the Wheaton College campus Saturday in the Harvard Bicycle Racing Club's second event of the yar...