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`Glasnost': What's in A Word?
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For a couple of years now, we of the press, including those of
us who know some Russian, and lots of others have been talking of
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for "openness"-to the
point of making glasnost one of those few Russian words that is
presumed to be in the informed citizen's vocabulary and so hardly
needs to be translated anymore.
It comes, then, as a rude but necessary awakening to be told by
former American diplomat William H. Luers, in a footnote to his
article on Eastern Europe in Foreign Affairs magazine, that we have
got the translation wrong-and that it makes ...
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Letter from London.(exhibit honoring Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; LONDON--Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev would have approved of the exhibition...not to pending revolution, as in Diaghilev's turn of the century Russia...creative genius from Russia. "Diaghilev, Creator of the Ballets Russes...
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Ballet, beauty and the beast Sergei Diaghilev had charm, cunning and the unique ability to intimidate the likes of Picasso or Matisse. Yet for all his genius, the trailblazing Ballet Russes founder was forever on the brink of catastrophe.
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...of the cemetery, was that of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, founder and leader of the...course of a 23-year career, Diaghilev had made his mark in Europe...before the First World War, Diaghilev reinvented his company as a...
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VASLAV NIJINSKY PROFILE: DANCING WITH THE DEMONS When Vaslav Nijinsky burst on to the Paris stage at the age of 20, the world was enraptured. The Parisians called him the god of dance. Then, in a process which was captured in the frenzied journal he kept at the time, madness began to set in. Now the full, unexpurgated diary is being published for the first time.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...year-old daughter, Kyra. His relations with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, the company in which he had...introducing him to others, including, in 1908, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. Diaghilev, then 35 and one of the most prominent...
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The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov: Choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...cult of originality' that infused Diaghilev's world, or of anything that relates to Diaghilev, one must always remember the work...owe our knowledge and appreciation of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. Ironically, Diaghilev, who helped...
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Charmer, charlatan, patron, genius
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929) had a badger-stripe...impresario that you find dotted around "Diaghilev: Creator of the Ballets Russes...exaggeration, given the range of Diaghilev's magnetism and persuasive powers...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter, 1847; William Jennings Bryan, politician and speaker, 1860; Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, founder of the Diaghilev ballet company, 1872; Max Reger, teacher and composer, 1873; Sir John Hubert Marshall, archaeologist...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On This Day.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...Also on This Day: 1871: Birth of American aviationpioneer Orville Wright;1929: Death of ballet director Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev; 1934: German plebiscite gave sole power to Adolf Hitler; 1942: Canadian commandos raided Dieppe; 1942...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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COLOR, LINE, MOTIFS IDENTIFY FURNITURE SUITE AS 'ART DECO'.(At Home)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ...thought that what we call "Art Deco" had its roots in Paris in 1909 with the scenery that was designed for Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev's Ballet Russe. This dramatic and boldly modern look soon supplanted the more languid and sensuous curves...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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On this day.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
; ...who fought the decline of agricultural wages were sentenced to seven years transportation to Tasmania. 1872: Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, the father of modern ballet, was born in Novgorod. 1932: Sydney Harbour bridge was opened. 1976: Princess...
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No ugly duckling
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...repertoires; 70- and 80-year-old Ballets Russes classics appear to be as fashionable today as they were when Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev was around. Scottish audiences have already seen Michael Clark and Marie Chouinard's reinventions of Stravinsky...
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