Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neizvesnty fell silent, but Official Kremlin Poet Evgeny Evtushenko rose to his friend's defense. "He came back from the war with 14 bullets in his body," said Evtushenko, "and I hope he will live many more years and produce many more fine works of art." "As people say," shot back Nikita brutally, "only the grave corrects a hunchback." Evtushenko managed a brave reply: "I hope, Comrade Khrushchev, we have outlived the time when the grave was used as a means of correction." The audience was stunned, then burst into applause; even Khrushchev sheepishly joined...
...Evtushenko's display of courage did not last long. Two weeks after the Lenin Hills meeting, the party's ideological boss, Leonid Ilyichev, called in the poet and a number of other young intellectuals for an attitude talk. Ilyichev was especially angry over Evtushenko's poem Babi Yar, which condemned Soviet anti-Semitism and which had just been enthusiastically received in a new symphonic setting by Composer Dmitry Shostakovich. Cultural commissars quickly canceled further performances of the symphony. As for the poem, said Ilyichev, it should be changed to include an attack on West Germany. After...
Although the details of the visit are uncertain at present. Urrutia said Evtushenko is expected to deliver a public lecture, with translator, on the role of the artist in society, and to give a reading of his poems in Russian to a smaller audience. He has also expressed a desire to meet with students in classes and lectures, Urrutia said...
...twenty-nine year old Evtushenko came to Harvard for his first time in the spring two years ago when he gave a reading of his poetry but showed a stronger desire to see Club 47 than do anything else. One slavic student who attended his reading then recalls Evtushenko asking "Where are the beatniks...
...Evtushenko is considered the idol of Russian youth and the intellectual leader of the "new wave" of poets and artists who have come into prominence since the losening of the ties on cultural growth and expression in the Soviet Union...