Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later Premier Aleksei Kosygin received U.S. Senators Albert Gore and Claiborne Pell in Moscow and delivered a serious lecture on the dangers of either superpower attempting to jump ahead of the other in military strength. Both, he urged, should press on with negotiations for limiting anti-ballistic missiles and should seek ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Now that Czechoslovakia is safely in hand, it seems that the Kremlin is finding it easier to be prudent...
...Soviets themselves have traditionally portrayed Nixon as a reactionary antiCommunist, particularly since his 1959 kitchen debate with Khrushchev. But some Soviets have begun to regard Nixon as an American version of Premier Aleksei Kosygin: an efficient apparatchik...
Unquiet Sleep. Thus last week did Russia bestow final rites on Aleksei Kosterin, a writer who, only a month before he died, had resigned from the Communist Party rather than face what he considered illegal expulsion for his views. Kosterin had protested a variety of Soviet repressions, including the recent trials of dissidents and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Though that alone might have accounted for the brusqueness of his funeral, Soviet authorities were actually far more concerned with the living than with the dead in the crematorium. For Kosterin's eulogist was his old friend, Major General Pyotr Grigorenko...
...Died. Aleksei Kosterin, 72, Soviet writer and critic of the Communist regime; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...
WHEN A PLAY is small, you've got to do big things with it to make it live. Aleksei Arbuzov's The Promise has all the signs of a small work: brief scenes that allow little sustained action, a lean plot, and a theme that's nothing to write home about. It is more a character study than a play--the story of two teen-age boys and a girl who escape death during the tragic siege of Leningrad only to become failures as adults...