Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Main target of Sholokhov's scorn was plainly Evgeny Evtushenko, 28, the current idol of serious poetry lovers and the young intelligentiki. A shaggy, twice-married Angry Young Muscovite who sports jazzy French suits and boasts a modern, two-room apartment, Evtushenko looks, and at times sounds, rather like a beat Keats. Though he produces periodic Party paeans on such acceptable themes as the Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that...