Word: fair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fearless avenger of evil. Moore fought back by retaining his familiar white hat and, until the case is settled, wearing sunglasses. "I'm not happy with the sunglasses," admitted the western hero who had to wear shades. "I want the mask back. But the Lone Ranger code is fair play, law and order...
Last week, the day before Moscow's second International Book Fair, Boris Stukalin, chairman of the Soviet state publishing committee, proclaimed that the fair offered "fresh evidence of the . . . implementation of the Helsinki accords ... and the Soviet Union's constant efforts to deepen mutual understanding...
...much for the dust jacket. Inside the fair was another story. There Western publishers dreamed of reaching millions of new readers with millions of old rubles. Said Robert Baensch, vice president of Harper & Row: "We're planting the seeds, looking for a big future market." But as fast as the seeds were planted, they were uprooted. Robert Bernstein, chairman of Random House and an outspoken advocate of human rights, was not even allowed in the country. And at the fair itself, inspectors ransacked exhibitions and carted off more than 50 books, most of them American. Some of the proscribed...
Other forbidden works included The Arts of David Levine, with a caricature of Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. When it was shown that Levine also lampooned American politicians, Ramaz Mchelidze, deputy general director of the fair, observed without irony, "We have different customs." Publishers may profit from the difference - which might explain their unwillingness, despite loud harrumphs, to pull out of the fair. In the '40s, getting a book banned in Boston was tantamount to a free ride on the bestseller list. Being maligned in Moscow may provide an equally large audience...
...American Image of Russia, 1917-1977 edited by Benson L. Grayson (Ungar; $14.50). "Liberty is precious," wrote Vladimir Lenin. "So precious that it must be rationed." The statement is illustrated by the book and the fair...