Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From that sad reverie of love. Yevtushenko moved into his surprise for the evening--a surprise courteously announced in the New York Times earlier in the day--a poem he had just composed on the bombing of the office of the cultural impresario Sol Hurok, noted for bringing Soviet talent to the USA for many years. Barry Boys said outright that this was not poetic journalism, but that of course is precisely what it was. Yevtushenko stood smiling and looking very pleased as Boys began the poem. He stood in the glory of his art the news is just what...
...Hurok offices, he said, have "the stench of Auschwitz...
Never Again. Incendiary bombs had exploded almost simultaneously in two Manhattan office buildings. One burst in Hurok's New York headquarters, which was immediately engulfed in dense black smoke that killed a young secretary and incapacitated nine others, including Hurok, who was briefly hospitalized and then released. The second was detonated in the office of Columbia Artists, another talent agency, which was luckily almost empty; most of the employees had not yet arrived for work. Within minutes, anonymous callers to the Associated Press and NBC claimed that the bombs had been set to protest "the deaths and imprisonment...
...disclaim responsibility for last week's crime. From Israel, where he is trying to form a worldwide J.D.L., Rabbi Meir Kahane called the bombings "insane." The acting head of J.D.L., New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, denied that there had ever been a J.D.L. plan to bomb the Hurok and Columbia offices, both of which have booked Russian talent for the U.S. Hurok, 83, has long been an object of the league's enmity. As the foremost importer of Russian talent, he introduced the Bolshoi Ballet, the Moiseyev dancers and Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, among others, to American audiences...
...York City police have no hard evidence implicating the league. But there is no escaping the league's ultimate connection with the attacks. Its message of violence and hate has struck a responsive chord with a tiny but clearly dangerous element among American Jews. Ironically, Hurok is Jewish, as was the bomber's victim, Iris Kones...