Word: author
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheishvili was by all odds the strangest Soviet defector to fly West in a long time. A thick-lipped, bushy-browed, literary mountain lion who sported a flowing silk tie, Author Cheishvili condemned "the intellectual intolerance in my country," and said that the "socialist realism" Moscow expected of its authors "made me sick." But in the next breath he defended "with pride the many great things our government has done since Stalin's death." Why, then, had he left his wife and two sons in Tiflis? "I see that there is a role for me," he boomed, "in helping...
Interviewing officials did not know whether to consider him a self-appointed, Rudolf Hess-like emissary from the East, a Soviet propagandist or a crazy mixed-up author. They finally decided to let him stay...
...finds "at 16, 17 and 18 or more carats, according to the greater or lesser degree of beauty"-Rodgers and Hammerstein operatives went to work in Hong Kong, Paris, London, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Director Gene Kelly and Choreographer Carol Haney scoured theaters, nightclubs and Y.W.C.A.s. Co-Author Joseph Fields judged a San Francisco Chinatown beauty contest and watched for talent that would look right on Flower Drum's riotous Grant Avenue...
...then the author has left his chore behind him. His interest is that of the scholar, advancing but not selling ideas and thoughts. He is as heedless of praise as censure, has no idea how many readers attend him, and does not care: "To worry about the size of your audience is like taking your blood pressure every...
...Author of The Harvest and the Scythe, a book of poetry published last year, he will talk with members of the House in the dining hall and in the Junior Common Room. He is the guest of Louis Kampf, a Junior Fellow living in the House...