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Brodsky

[ brod-skee ]

noun

  1. Joseph, 1940–96, U.S. poet, born in Russia: Nobel Prize 1987; U.S. poet laureate 1991–92.


Brodsky

/ ˈbrɒdskɪ /

noun

  1. BrodskyJoseph19401996MUSRussianWRITING: poet Joseph , original name Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky . 1940–96, US poet, born in the Soviet Union. His collections include The End of a Beautiful Era (1977). Nobel prize for literature 1987


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The West awarded him the Nobel prize for literature in 1987 and America made Brodsky its poet laureate in 1991.

After all, his next project is naming a street for Josef Brodsky, an even more outspoken enemy of the Soviet behemoth.

Defense attorney Joel Brodsky then asked one question to many.

“Goldman was going to ride out the financial storm at a very turbulent time in the market,” Brodsky said.

"A 'hostile environment' doesn't mean that every woman on this campus has been harassed," says Brodsky.

He was also the owner of a magnificent Guarnerius violin, which is now said to be the property of Adolf Brodsky.

In 1891 Brodsky went to New York, where he also established a quartet, but with little success.

Even he could not guess, however, how Brodsky had discovered the identity of Ivan's companion.

It was then, of course, that Colonel Brodsky—he had just had his promotion—came to my father about me.

Brodsky ran here and there, with the result that he at last found two mill hands who hurried to the pit with him.

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