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...today. At eleven he became the great man's protégé, and at 20 he published the first of his five books of verse. By 1959 he was famous. By 1963 he was in serious trouble. Khrushchev went after him hammer and sickle as a "bourgeois formalist," and Russia's jackal journals bayed that he had "one foot in Gorky Street and the other on Broadway." Then the tone changed, and in April of this year Voznesensky was permitted to tour the U.S., reading his poems...
...years ago Critic Harold Rosenberg, the man credited with inventing the term "action painting," denounced a canvas by Realist Jack Levine for an odd reason. The painting was of a gangster's funeral, and Rosenberg said that since everyone knew all about gangsters already, Levine was a mere formalist. The abstract expressionists, with their great swirls and blots, showed something no man had ever seen before. They were, therefore, the truer artists. Getlein noted that Rosenberg's "tradition of the new," if carried to its logical conclusion, would pretty much dispose of Michelangelo and Monet, since everyone knew...
...November devoted completely to Lowell, the Advocate published a description of the poet by Allen Tate, a professor at the University of Minnesota. Tate said Lowell's work "is not equalled by anybody else of his generation." "He is a poet an not an innovator on principle." A formalist and traditionalist, "he is one of our few poets, of any generation, who have a living historical sense...
...Doctor Zhivago is "partly autobiographical." Like Zhivago, he grew up in a cultured home; Pasternak's father illustrated one of Tolstoy's novels. In the years immediately following the Russian Revolution, Boris Pasternak wrote symbolist poetry accented with vivid and highly personal imagery. Attacked as a "decadent formalist," he switched to translating, e.g., Shakespeare, Goethe. During the purge trials, he risked death by refusing to sign a denunciation of "traitors," but fellow writers covered up for his defection...
Into Budapest streamed delegates from the Communist musical world to honor Hungary's late great Bela Bartok, once dismissed as a decadent "formalist," but restored to Red favor two years ago. The hit performers of last week's festival turned out to be not Communist musicians but a clutch of wandering Americans: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the men of the Juilliard String Quartet...