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Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...
This was too much for British Writer Edward Crankshaw, who complained privately to Russia's slick Ilya Ehrenburg. Explained Ehrenburg: "That was Fadeev's job. He had to define the enemy. But don't worry. Tomorrow it will be my job to smooth the enemy's ruffled feathers...