Mandelstam
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noun
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Nadezhda ( Yakovlevna ) (næˈdɛʃdə), born Nadezhda Khazina. 1899–1980, Soviet writer, wife of Osip Mandelstam: noted for her memoirs Hope against Hope (1971) and Hope Abandoned (1973) describing life in Stalin's Russia
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Osip ( Emilyevich ) (ˈɒsiːp). 1891–?1938, Soviet poet and writer, born in Warsaw; he was persecuted by Stalin and died in a labour camp. His works include Tristia (1922), Poems (1928), and the autobiographical Journey to Armenia (1933)
Example Sentences
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“We believe there is now a process for moving forward together,” Mandelstam said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 2020
Peter Mandelstam, the chief operating officer of Enchant, said carbon capture could reduce the plant’s emissions by 90 percent, allowing it to comply with the state’s new rules.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2020
He calls on an ensemble of writers, poets, witnesses and visionaries — Anton Chekhov, Vasily Grossman, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam — to ground the story.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2018
But it’s not a portrait of Mandelstam, it’s a movie about Mandelstam’s ideas—or, rather, it’s about Josh’s big sociopolitical and aesthetically sophisticated, oblique, and abstract ideas, insofar as they overlap with Mandelstam’s.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2015
Think Mandelstam on his hell-train, shuddering with fever, dying of a line in a poem.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2012
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