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...Russia each month comes a trickle of contraband manuscripts. Usually handwritten in loose-leaf notebooks by pseudonymous authors, the books are smuggled to Western publishers via an intellectual underground. Last week two of these recently published volumes. Abram Tertz's On Socialist Realism and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's The Leaf of Spring, gave Western readers a look at Russian intellectuals' bitter disenchantment...
Whores & Hangmen. Already noted for a brilliant satirical novel on Communism. The Trial Begins (TIME, Oct. 3, 1960). the author who hides behind the pseudonym Abram Tertz has been variously reported to be a professor in a Russian university, a prominent Russian novelist, or Poet Yesenin-Volpin himself. In his new work (Pantheon; $2.95). he lashes out against the state-dictated code of "socialist realism," which reduces authors to mere copywriters of Communist propaganda, beholden to "Purpose with a capital P." Writes Tertz: "A poet not only writes poems, but helps, in his own way, to build Communism...
Annette Robinson reviews The Trial Begins, a novel of Russia's New Class by Abram Tertz that was smuggled out of the Soviet Union early last year. Perhaps because the subject is non-Jewish, Miss Robinson's writing is restrained and modest, avoiding the self-indulgent, sentimental egotism of some of the writing in Mosaic...
...Abram Eisenman, editor of the weekly Savannah, Georgia Sun, described his ordeal as a Southern supporter of integration at a Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union forum Tuesday night...
...Kennedy "brain tryst." Three are gone: Economist David E. Bell (Budget Director), Law Professor Archibald Cox (Solicitor General), and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy (Special Assistant for National Security Affairs). Four more are reportedly to be named to still unassigned jobs: Professors Abram Chayes, John K. Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Stanley Surrey. If conservative Harvard-men shudder at the rumor that New Deal-ish Historian Schlesinger may wind up as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, they try to balance the notion with the firmer rumor that Liberal Economist (The Affluent Society) Galbraith may be sent...