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Nick Clark, a first-year student who volunteered at the event, said it was aimed at giving the children a chance to "belong, play, learn, grow and discover," but he added that the real objective was a good time. "It's good fun, that's why everyone is here," he said...
...predicament of Nikolai Filatov, whose large canvases -- a fervent compost of '50s-style abstract expressionism and broken-up cubofuturist planes -- are beginning to sell in the West, so he has hard currency but nowhere to paint. To get studio space in Moscow on an official basis, you must belong to the Artists Union and do "real" aesthetic work. Some of the best-known figures in the Soviet avant-garde, like Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev, who share working space, are still officially registered as illustrators of children's books...
...more theoretical level, perestroika has been attacked by conservative intellectuals who improbably combine a nationalist nostalgia for Russian Orthodoxy and the Stalin era with a xenophobic hatred of corrupt Western influences on Soviet life. Many of these critics belong to the Writers' Union of the Russian Federal Republic, the largest of the U.S.S.R.'s 15 constituent republics. The literary monthly Nash Sovremennik has denounced rock music and beauty pageants as demeaning influences on Russian culture. Such writers as Yuri Bondarev and Vasily Belov have attacked the de-Stalinization process for defaming a period when, despite Stalin's tyranny, the Soviet...
...historical development of the entire world. It is so new, strong and extraordinary that at times even people nurtured in her womb, her children so to speak, perceive it as if it were some sort of monstrosity or invasion from Mars, to which we ourselves, however, still belong. We cannot have the calm perspective provided by distance, inasmuch as we are not simply historians but contemporaries and witnesses (and sometimes even participants) in this process...
Seventeen years before my own (physical) emigration, I emigrated from Russia in my books, and I don't regret it. In the final analysis, isn't it all the same where the body of a writer dwells, if his books belong to Russia...