Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although giving financial aid is its chief function, the Harvard-Yenching Institute also attempts other methods of assistance. Every year fourteen professors from East Asian universities are brought to Harvard for a year or more of study, Reischauer noted.
The Brattle has moved within the Iron Curtain this week in its search for the bizarre, the artistic, and the foreign. The result is a collection of three Soviet films, one with subtitles and two, including the feature, with dubbed narration and native music.
Leading the playbill is a performance of the ballet Lileya by the Kiev State Opera Company. If you don't listen to the amusingly propagandist narration, or pay too much attention to the equally amusing, equally nationalistic plot, and are not bothered by the rough edges of some of the...
The gist of Lileya is a love affair between a young serf and a young serfess during some sort of mid-summer's eve celebration. A fat, dissolute, and probably capitalistic robber baron starts the plot rolling by breaking up the festivities, and then deciding that he wants young Lileya...
In true worker fashion, however, Stephen returns to rouse up the local peasants and overthrow the terrified baron. Somewhat embittered by the burning of his castle, the noble shoots Lileya (in the back), only to be stabbed by Stephen's henchmen. The movie closes with a shot of Stephen looking...