Word: andrei
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ANTIWORLDS by Andrei Voznesensky; translated by W. H. Auden, Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz and others. 120 pages. Basic Books...
...Andrei Volkonsky, 33, the son of Prince Mikhail Volkonsky, studied in Paris, later at the Moscow Conservatory. A performance of one of his compositions in Leningrad in 1960 caused such an intramural scandal that no new work of his was played for five years. The silence was ended last spring with the premiere of a cantata, The Laments of Shchaza. Volkonsky composes in the twelve-tone style, but he is also a first-rate concert harpsichordist and a leader in the revival of baroque music in Russia...
...fear of a resurgent Germany and his desire to banish Anglo-Saxon influence from the Continent to achieve the old goals of Soviet policy: 1) a settlement in Central Europe along lines of a neutralized, disarmed Germany, and 2) withdrawal of the U.S. from Europe. Complains Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The United States believes for some reason or other that Europe cannot do without its presence and trusteeship. But the people of Europe have and will yet have their say on this score...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 56, had an experience unique for a high Communist official: an audience with Pope Paul VI. The private, 45-minute encounter signaled a distinct détente between the Catholic and Communist worlds. Even five years ago, a meeting between a Pope and a Soviet foreign minister would have been unthinkable; now Gromyko and Paul were earnestly discussing peace and the dangers in Southeast Asia. After the audience, the Marxist carried away a gold medal commemorating the Ecumenical Council. But no pictures were taken to commemorate the meeting. The Vatican considers Gromyko too controversial...
...Europe following expulsion by the Bolsheviks, arrived in the U.S. to write more than a dozen works on Soviet life, such as Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), for which he and Co-Author David J. Dallin were denounced in the U.N. as "idiots or gangsters" by the late Andrei Vishinsky; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif...