Word: adzhubeis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Capovilla told an audience in Assisi last week that after Aleksei Adzhubei had raised the question of diplomatic relations between Moscow and the Vatican, the Pope gave him a brief homily in reply. "You are a journalist," he said, "so you know the Bible and the progression of the work of Creation. You know that the Lord took six days for the work of Creation before coming to man. But as you know, the days of the Bible are not days but epochs, and the epochs of the Bible are very long...
Kindly Pope John then took Adzhubei and his wife Rada on a brief tour of the papal apartments, explained the meaning of his tapestries and paintings. He asked Rada to tell him the names of her children (Nikita, Aleksei and Ivan) because "the names of children acquire a special sound from the lips of their own mothers." John gave Rada a rosary because it reminded him "of the prayer my mother used to recite by the fire when...
...Adzhubei visit stirred a lot of criticism in Italy at the time, and some Italians even blamed the Pope for the increase in Communist voting strength in the national elections a month later...
...soldier's return was chronicled in a subtle, stylish new poem by Tvardovsky that was spread across two pages of Izvestia under a warmly approving introduction by Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. In Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
...them. However, the poet also urges Russians to stop harping on Stalinism, which has been Khrushchev's line of late. Terkin's resurrection was a sign that Khrushchev had decided to soften a campaign against controversial writing that has been going on since December. In fact, Editor Adzhubei noted reassuringly, Nikita liked the poem and laughed loudly when it was read to him before publication...