Word: guests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time the conservative onslaught was especially fierce, particularly from Alexander Melnikov, party boss from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, one of the sites of coal-mining strikes that swept the nation last July. In an article in the liberal weekly Moscow News, journalist Danil Granin, who was a guest at the plenum, expressed alarm that "here for the first time, not at a factory meeting but from the mouths of leaders of major party committees, I heard direct accusations against Gorbachev." Granin even heard complaints that "if the capitalists and the Pope are praising us, we are taking...
...mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like an offensive guest at a lousy party, Communism drew together a lot of people who would otherwise have been standoffish...
...Musical Director James D. Yannatos chose"Hour of the Soul" after hearing the piece at theThird International Music Festival forContemporary Music in Leningrad, which he attendedas a guest of the Soviet Composers Union...
Members of the company, including Stockard Channing '65, Fran Lebowitz and James Taylor, were joined by guest performers such as Brooke Shields and Reynolds Price, who read a poem that he had written for the occasion...
...local pinball action, Ian Smith set an unofficial record when two consecutive balls slid down the "nute" without registering a single point. The machine, hospitable to its Harvard guest, granted the junior guard an extra ball each occasion...