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Mandelstam

American  
[man-dl-stahm, muhn-dyil-shtahm] / ˈmæn dlˌstɑm, mən dyɪlˈʃtɑm /

noun

  1. Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938?, Russian acmeist poet and essayist.


Mandelstam British  
/ ˈmændəlˌʃtɑːm /

noun

  1. 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

  2. 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)

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Enchant Energy Chief Operating Officer Peter Mandelstam agreed with Fallgren’s assertion that the meeting covered preliminary discussions.

From Washington Times • Feb. 15, 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

Meanwhile Mandelstam is on camera, eating lunch and taking a bathroom break, a flesh-and-blood scholar whose actual life is elided from the film—as is Josh’s own.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2015

Peter Mandelstam, a wind developer and longtime chairman of the American Wind Energy Association’s offshore group, said, “We and other developers want this technology developed on both coasts.”

From New York Times • May 31, 2013

Think Mandelstam on his hell-train, shuddering with fever, dying of a line in     a poem.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2012