Word: ilya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to Communize their homeland. But instead of falling into the assembly line of Social Realism, Babel fell into one of the noisiest silences in the history of modern Russian literature. Some of the reasons for Babel's failure to fulfill his production quotas are touched on by Ilya Ehrenburg, Lev Nikulin, Georgy Mun-blit and Konstantin Paustovsky, writers and former friends of the author. Their reminiscences compose most of the generous appendix to You Must Know Everything, a collection of newly translated short stories, abrupt prose exercises and journalistic sketches gathered and annotated by Nathalie Babel, the author...
...graphics by elder reliables (Picasso, Albers, Currier & Ives). The committee also complements its postwar selections with 18th and 19th century American wood carvings, South Pacific tapa cloth, Middle Eastern bronzes. In ihe past year, the committee's nod has gone to recent works by Romare Bearden, Fairfield Porter, Ilya Bolotowsky, Adolph Gottlieb, Ludwig Sander, Wojciech Fangor, Otto Piene, Gunther Uecker, Pol Bury. Since Chase plans to open new offices in London, Milan and Puerto Rico, still more additions will be needed to furnish them as well...
...people are any longer executed for political crimes, but the legacy of Stalinism has made an enduring impression on the everyday lives of most Russians. In the fourth volume of his memoirs, entitled Post-War Years: 1945-54, Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote that "it is far easier to change policy and the economic system than to alter human consciousness." Russians, said Ehrenburg, who died in September, "have been unable to divest themselves of a sense of constriction, of fear, of casuistry, of survivals from the past." Today, most Russians long only for a quiet life, a little more freedom...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman...
...Died. Ilya Ehrenburg, 76, Soviet author and cultural windsock for half a century (see THE WORLD...