Word: ekaterina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because, both in the novel and as her self, Ekaterina Sushkova is intellectually overpowered by Madame Bekhmetyeva, there is a natural tendency to underrate the actress portraying her. It is a measure of Michael Curtin's achievement that Ekaterina-Princess Mary tends to embarrass the female members of the audience with her simplicity and naivete. Perhaps in their defensive intellectual self-consciousness they failed to appreciate that her Ekaterina is the only sort of girl a man like Lermontov could "love," precisely because she would never threaten him intellectually...
Dissension among Russia's artists seems to have spread well beyond literature. Calling a special press conference, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, the Soviet Culture Minister, assured Western newsmen that "never have conditions for artistic creation in Russia been so favorable as now." She then went on to announce that a gala international ballet contest will be held in Moscow next year. Of course, the emphasis will be on "realism"-meaning that abstract dancing is out. "And we do not share the opinion of some ballet lovers who approve of the sexual direction that ballet has taken," added Mrs. Furtseva. "When...
...sacrificed to patriotic duty. For the most part, the regime continues to cosset compliant and unadventurous writers and artists, and to censor and chastise those whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week the regime amnestied tens of thousands of petty criminals, but it did not free Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli...
Satanic Gossips. Some delegates sounded like gossip columnists on a satanic news sheet. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan claimed that Albania's Premier Mehmet Shehu said Stalin made two mistakes: he died too soon and he did not destroy the "present leadership of the Soviet Communist Party." Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva told the Congress that Lazar Kaganovich was personally responsible for the execution of hundreds of railroad executives in the 1950s; the Ukraine's Nikolai Podgorny labeled Kaganovich a "degenerate" and a "real sadist." A Byelorussian delegate charged that former Party Secretary Georgy Malenkov helped the secret police frame...
This was a far cry from the girl who won Khrushchev's affection and powerful support. A onetime textile worker and a tough organizer for the Komsomol youth groups, Ekaterina joined the party secretariat of a Moscow district in 1942 and there met Khrushchev, after which promotions came fast. After Stalin's death, she became the Moscow party boss...