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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Dorothy Rabinowitz, From Russia With Love and Fear. Wall Street Journal ,
June 24, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
2702304569504576403253256137430.html
("'All the crazy claims, the constant Soviet talk about how a milkmaid had
milked a millions tons.' Things like that, ridiculous as they were, they had
heard all their lives, and they had made an impression on people")
Note:
(a) The TV review on
(i) Robin Hessman, My Perestroika. PBS, June 28, 2011 (POV);
(ii) David Grubin, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. PBS, Mondays,
June 27, July 11, July 18, July 25 and Aug 1 ('The American Experience')
* POV (TV series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POV_(TV_series)
(a PBS series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is a cinema
term for "point of view")
(b) Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Young_Pioneer_organization_of_the_Soviet_Union
(for children of age 10–15 in the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991)
(c) Leonid Brezhnev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
(1906-1982; General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1964-1982;
(d) glasnost: openness
perestroika: restructuring
(e) Mary Todd Lincoln
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
(1818-1882; born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky; left home at an early
age to attend a finishing school where she learned to speak French fluently,
studied dance, drama, music and social graces; at 20 in 1839, she went to
Springfield, Illinois; Abraham Lincoln, age 33, married Mary Todd, age 23,
in 1842)
* The nortehrn English and Scottish surname Todd meant "fox" in Middle
English. |
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