Word: leningrad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending for such things? And why? An immensely wealthy individual-a Getty, a Norton Simon, a Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the Great, who built Leningrad's incomparable Hermitage ("I am not a nibbler but a glutton") to U.S. Industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, the great benefactor of the Smithsonian ("I have a madman's rage for art"). To be sure, such stupendous collectors and donors still make record purchases. But it is not the proud possessors...
...helmsmen were Sulu (George Takei), the Asian sword-fighter responsible for firing phasers and photon torpedos and wiping people off the face of the galaxy and Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), the young Russian hipnik who drank "wodka inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad" and fell in love every three episodes. Finally, chief nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett Roddenberry) drooled over Spock...
...trip included a stop in Leningrad, one place Forman has no desire to see again. While there she contracted a serious intestinal bug which took six months to work itself out of her system. Unfortunately, that was an Olympic year, and she couldn't recover in time to prepare for the Olympic trials properly...
...both Russians and Americans, the supreme symbol of the Soviet Union at war was the "Leningrad" Symphony, Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh. In 1942, when Arturo Toscanini and the NBC orchestra performed it on radio for the first time in America, the New York Times music critic remarked that "the ballyhoo has never been surpassed in history for the scope of the publicity and the distribution of the music." In the U.S.S.R., performances of the symphony were said to have exerted "a profound influence on the psyche of the Soviet people in the struggle against the Nazi invader...
...next day he and his wife Valentina, another Bolshoi principal, requested and were granted political asylum in the U.S. Like Godunov, and the famous earlier defectors from Leningrad's Kirov company -Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov-the Kozlovs were seeking greater artistic freedom in the West...