Word: furtseva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dissension among Russia's artists seems to have spread well beyond literature. Calling a special press conference, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, the Soviet Culture Minister, assured Western newsmen that "never have conditions for artistic creation in Russia been so favorable as now." She then went on to announce that a gala international ballet contest will be held in Moscow next year. Of course, the emphasis will be on "realism"-meaning that abstract dancing is out. "And we do not share the opinion of some ballet lovers who approve of the sexual direction that ballet has taken," added Mrs. Furtseva. "When...
...patriotic duty. For the most part, the regime continues to cosset compliant and unadventurous writers and artists, and to censor and chastise those whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week the regime amnestied tens of thousands of petty criminals, but it did not free Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel...
...Gossips. Some delegates sounded like gossip columnists on a satanic news sheet. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan claimed that Albania's Premier Mehmet Shehu said Stalin made two mistakes: he died too soon and he did not destroy the "present leadership of the Soviet Communist Party." Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva told the Congress that Lazar Kaganovich was personally responsible for the execution of hundreds of railroad executives in the 1950s; the Ukraine's Nikolai Podgorny labeled Kaganovich a "degenerate" and a "real sadist." A Byelorussian delegate charged that former Party Secretary Georgy Malenkov helped the secret police frame innocent...
...ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never diet. I eat everything." With that, she flew back to Moscow, where the knowing party climbers hang on her every word, explaining: "Whatever Furtseva says, Khrushchev means...
...Madame Furtseva's latest smash hit abroad is Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company, which last week wound up a ten-day stand in Paris. A star of the show was Rudolf Nureev, 23, whom Paris critics hailed for his spectacular leaps in the famous Bluebird pas de deux in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. But word had spread through the dance company that Nureev intended to defect, and when the dancers arrived at Le Bourget Airport for departure to London, Nureev, sullen and tense, was accompanied by two Russian strong-arm men, euphemistically described later as "unofficial...