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Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum
Book celebrates 100 plus years
By: - Apr 24th, 2007Originally when it was founded in 1903 the Busch Reisinger Museum used plaster casts of Gothic art and architecture, photographs and documents to teach Germanic culture to Harvard students. By the 1930s and 1940s it started to acquire original works. Today the museum represents one of the great collections of this Northern and Eastern European material.
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Leaving the U.S.S.R. Part 6
From Rome to Iceland to Rome to Newton
By: - Apr 03rd, 2007In this final chapter of the story of leaving the old Soviet Union for the U.S.A. Yuri continues to explore Rome but takes a side trip to see his mother and sister in Iceland before departing for Newton, Mass.
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Leaving the U.S.S.R. Part Five
Exploring Freedom in Rome
By: - Mar 28th, 2007Having rent and food covered as a refugee allowed for spending money to explore Italy and even take trips to other cities.
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Departing the USSR: Part 4
When Sakharov Learned of the Nobel Prize in My Moscow Apartment
By: - Mar 07th, 2007When strangers came to the apartment of Yuri Tuvim asking if Sakharov was there, at first, he was reluctant to let them in. Then they announced that Sakharov had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Within minutes the apartment was filled with reporters and diplomats.
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Leaving the USSR Part Three
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
By: - Feb 24th, 2007A case of 20 bottle of 196 proof alcohol in Stoly bottles helped to grease the wheels and a complex emigration.
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Critical Mess
The Eroding Impact of Art Writing
By: - Feb 21st, 2007In a collection of essays by leading art critics the eroding influence of their work is discussed. While the arguments and issues are urgent they also seem quite ancient.
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Back in the U.S.S.R.
Part Two of a Memoir
By: - Feb 06th, 2007A decision to "join an aunt in Israel" caused problems for Dr. Yuri Tuvim including being fired from his job as a tenured scientist. This prompted him to grapple with Soviet officals with amusing results.
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The History of My Departure
Part One
By: - Jan 28th, 2007In this the first chapter of a series of articles, Dr. Yuri Tuvim recounts the decisions to leave the USSR and the general issues for Russia's Jewish community, There is a decidedly Kafkaesque tone to these true stories.
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The Little Red Car
Adventures of a Freewheeling Vehicle
By: - Jan 08th, 2007A fantasy story for children of all ages. How the little red car just took off for fun on the open road with his friend Sarah from Newton.
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Great White Hunters
Stalking Big Game in Maine
By: - Dec 16th, 2006It was kind of a disaster when my Dad, Dr. Ferranti, his hunter friend and us squirts spent a weekend hunting big game in Maine.
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Back in the U.S.S.R.: Jewish Luck
The Vodka Cure for Methanol Poisoning
By: - Dec 16th, 2006While on a business social visit to Leningrad, in 1973, the author and colleagues mistakenly toasted in methanol instead of ethanol. How they took the Vodka Cure for a week in a Soviet hospital.
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Yuri in Sicily
The Whole Truth and the Only Truth about My Trip to Sicily in October 2002
By: - Nov 18th, 2006The misadventures of the Russian/American traveler, Dr. Yuri Tuvim, in Sicily. Mange. Oi vey.
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The Mortician's Daughter by Elizabeth Bloom
North Adams Author Returns to the Scene of the Crime
By: - Oct 17th, 2006The author Elizabeth Bloom sets a murder mystery in the Eclipse Mill of North Adams back in the day before its renovation as an artist loft building. The novel abounds with colorful local detail.
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sunflowers
Poems in German and English
By: - Sep 24th, 2006Spectacular late summer sun flowers inspired the poems in German and English by Astrid Hiemer.
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Anna Deavere Smith Wings It on the Common
Reads from New Book at Suffolk Convocation
By: - Sep 23rd, 2006Performer and playwright, Annna Deavere Smith, read from her new book "Letters to a Young Artist" during the 100th Anniversary convocation of Suffolk University.
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The Trap
Long Gone
By: - Aug 18th, 2006We trapped the wrong critter! Getting skunked in the Berkshires.
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Chateau d'Eaux
By: - Aug 17th, 2006In the fifties a group of British socialites visit a haunted chateau in France. This fiction by our British author friend is based on actual events.
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