Word: troika
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...this year's group of top Harvard officials, perhaps not as hardened by experience, did not so easily discount the potential effects of student demands. In fact, the Knowles-Rudenstine-Green troika was eager to acknowledge the validity of student concerns...
...tell the truth, they seem to revel in the uncertainty. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol depicted Russia in his novel Dead Souls as a wildly careering troika rushing into the unknown. Now, after seven decades of forced efforts to mold the Russian mind to fit rigid communist orthodoxy, people have taken to the road again with such an exhilarating clatter of hooves that it sometimes seems as if the destination means nothing, movement is everything...
...nags moving faster. But however bumpy the ride, if reform is really to take hold, every Russian must somehow arrive at an internal alteration of his or her mental outlook, a fresh landscape of the mind, to suit the new system. In the meantime, the troika is weighed down by some peculiarly Russian < baggage...
There is an unpredictable, impish streak in the Russian character often expressed in the desire to confound expectations and astonish with feats of prowess. The Russians have always longed to drive their national troika at breakneck speed, forcing other nations, in Gogol's words, to "look askance, as they step aside to give her the right of way." Now history has accorded them a unique chance...
...Leaves" came out on Friday, October 13. One was the product of a troika of new editors--I was one of them, and we lasted only three weeks. When we got the job, the instructions from the house office went something like this: cleaner, more legible, more inclusive. In: the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and typography. Out: new Madonna and "outing." No names, no offense...