Word: ilya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Ilya Muchets was looking for his destiny in the opposite direction. After grazing a nearby mountain, the 26-year-old pilot crashed his single-engined fighter on the runway at Stockholm's Södertörn Military Airport. He said that he was "just fed up with Russia...
...Where Are the Cheers?" The speakers produced their well-worn libels with the pride of a paterfamilias displaying yellowed family photographs. Some of the veterans seemed bored; Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss...
llya Ehrenburg, strong-arm boy of Communism's literary goon squad, got roughed up a bit himself. llya, charged the Yugoslav Writers' Union in a classic piece of Marxist doubletalk, had himself been wavering from the party line on art. In one of Ilya's recent articles, he had expressed certain "esthetic sympathies" and had supported ideas "with which leading Soviet critics and also our own do not agree...
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...
Other outsiders, including Russia's poison-penned Ilya Ehrenburg, had toured the land of cotton in search of sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...