Word: russianizing
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...tried the interdisciplinary thing at the College: Russian studies (RS) in the Slavic Department. My experience was better than that of most interdisciplinary students at Harvard, I’d say, but that’s mostly because the interdisciplinary framework gave me a great deal of flexibility to pursue my own interests, which were rarely satiated by a single discipline. I got to write a thesis that was somewhere between government, history, and art history. And I got to take concentration classes in three departments. But even the RS program, one of the best interdisciplinary tracks on campus, needs...
Perhaps the program’s goal of celebrating all is best exemplified in the conglomeration of cultures that converges in the poetic narrative of Natalia Martinez ’08, focusing on a child going blind. Written in Spanish, Russian, and English, Martinez’s easy flow and switching between accents in her performance seems to encapsulate just the easy fluency and “multi-lingual” participation of women in the arts that Ostara aims to showcase...
Holden’s fascination with language extends to foreign tongues as well, and he makes an effort to enjoy poems in their original form. He is especially interested in Russian literature, a preference he credits to a class he took his first year at Harvard...
...took a freshman seminar on 20th Century Russian poetry. It absolutely blew me away. There has been so much suffering that there is a power and brilliance to this poetry unlike anything I had ever seen. I became obsessed with [Russian poetry] and learned Russian so that I could read it in its native text...
DeLay has come under scrutiny for a host of questionable acquisitions and associations. A 1997 trip to Russia, during which DeLay played golf and met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, was recently discovered to have been indirectly underwritten by a company that also financed a $440,000 lobbying campaign in support of the Russian government. House ethics rules bar congressmen from receiving travel reimbursement from lobbyists. Similarly shady trips to South Korea and England have attracted further attention. In addition, reports sprang up earlier this month that DeLay’s wife and daughter received more than...