Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebellious poet in wax, and the impression is not flattering. A listener with no knowledge of Russian can have only an approximate sense of the quality of the original language in Yevtushenko's reading. The contents of the verses, however, can be judged in Alan Bates's English translation, and they do not seem to burn with artistic flame-they itch like inflammations. Except for the famous piece Babii Yar, which is more an emphatic speech than a poem about the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews by German troops near Yevtushenko's Kiev, topics...
...ages and engaging lyricism. Goya is a grinding tribute to the painter's horror-filled canvases of war. Antiworlds is a semicomic speculation on an anti-universe of antimatter where there would be no women, just "anti-men." Read in fiery Russian by the poet, and in English by Stanley Kunitz, William Jay Smith, Richard Wilbur and W. H. Auden...
...courses, bearing titles such as "Exposition and Autobiography," are being offered this year along with a lower group course entitled "English Composition" in place of the old General Education...
...able to spend it in a unique fashion. By next October 14 the 'Poonies hope to be ready for their annual spectacular. The date, in case you've forgotten, is the 900th anniversary of the battle of Hastings. Using the majestic Charles River as a stand-in for the English Channel, members of the Lampoon plan to stage a major re-enactment of the historic scene...
...much of a story. An air force installation takes over" the English village in which Roy, the young narrator, grew up; it soon becomes clear that the air vice marshal in charge is scheming to take over the earth. Meanwhile the world that Roy knew is crumbling in other ways. He is told that the couple who raised him are not his parents. His marriage to a barmaid named Bess sours under the possibility that she may be his sister, as well as under her adulterous preference for the flight lieutenant from the aerodrome. The air vice marshal...