Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Everywhere there are signs of Nikita's three grandsons, the children of his daughter Rada and Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei. Toys and bikes are parked near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
Apart from talking test ban, Moscow was talking movies. One Aleksei Ro manov, Russia's commissar of the cutting room, announced last week that even though Federico Fellini's 8½ had won first prize at the Moscow Interna tional Film Festival, it was far too pessimistic to be shown to the Russian peo ple. The criticism was unfair. The Fellini picture is all about a befuddled movie director who wants to dramatize the nuclear destruction of mankind but in stead surrenders himself to just loving everybody. "Let us all join hands," he cries as the whole cast...
...Western journalists who happened to read it, the snarls they got in the monthly magazine Sovetskaya Pechat (Soviet Press) were hardly a surprise. The author was Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and son-in-law of Nikita Khrushchev. Beware your Western colleagues, said the suspicious editor. They preach the preposterous idea that there can be a peaceful coexistence of ideologies...
Never fear, Aleksei hastened to add, "the inoculation of Communist ideas guards us safely from this fashionable disease." But does it? Aleksei, for one, seemed uncertain. The tongue-lashing he laid out for Soviet journalists was even more biting than he had managed for the West. Some of his reporters' symptoms concerned him; he was worried that the disease of coexistence was sapping their energies...