Word: lithuanian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This book is filled with vivid and Kafkaesque vignettes. In one convoy of prisoners was a Lithuanian who had deserted from the Red army. At a screening point, "the Lithuanian was to stay where he was-to be shot, he thought. When we were led away, he started playing furiously on a piano which had been left standing by the road." Each morning, at a prison camp where Von Lehndorff worked, the dead -stripped naked by the living-were stacked outside the barracks. One man was brought into the camp hospital "so covered with lice that you could compare...
...Lithuanian-born Author Sinai, 40, is an Israeli citizen who is now lecturing at Manhattan's New School of Social Research. Along with some other realistic observers, he contends that Western imperialism was much too easygoing. Assailed by guilt feelings, sentimentalizing the alien cultures over which they ruled, the imperialists failed to overhaul the social structures of the subject nations. They gave the non-West a taste for Western-style living without supplying them with the economic base or the management training that could provide it. As a result, the former colonies, now touchily proud new nations, are worse...
...this year Russian clubs are generally conceded to have the best rowers around. A prize Lithuanian eight beat Germany's 1960 Olympic champions this summer and other Russians mopped up most of the events at Henley...
...Harvard lightweight crews scored runaway victories yesterday in the Henley Regatta, but the previously unbeaten Crimson junior varsity heavyweights were decisively beaten by a big, strong Lithuanian eight...
Sometimes, speaking of himself in the third person, Harvey seems to sense and to compulsively reveal what's eating him. "He was born under Russian-Lithuanian influences, and his parents' speech was broken English," he intones, "and he left his education far too early to pursue acting, which is so common and vulgar...