Word: izvestia
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Trouble and confusion were rampant in Odessa. Moscow's lofty Izvestia sternly reported that city officials had taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The militia itself had sinned. It had changed the name of Troitskaya (Trinity) Street to "Street of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Toilers' and Peasants' Militia...
...Izvestia's slight, greying, top war cor respondent Ilya Ehrenburg, Red Star's mustached young (30) novelist Konstantin (Days & Nights) Simonov, and Pravda's chunky General Mikhail Galaktionov had arrived the afternoon before, wilted and bleary-eyed from their trip. Now, after a good night's sleep at their Embassy, they were ready for questions...
...matter how the winds of Soviet censorship may blow, the New York Times's droll, scholarly Correspondent Brooks Atkinson often contrives to get his message through from Moscow. One safe system: simply quote from the papers, and keep your afterthoughts dry. Last week a story in Izvestia caught his fancy. He passed it along: "Red Army troops are evacuating Iran amid many expressions of love and admiration at mass meetings of the people. . . . From Meshed Comes a bulletin: ... 'as our dear guests by their good behavior left pleasant impressions . . . the Iranian people love the Soviet people from...
...Russian Church counted further gains. Izvestia now prints the hierarchy's pastoral literature, which is obligingly directed not against sin but against non-Communist politics. Several priests were chosen in the recent election to sit in the two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet...
...trouble lay in the comedy's innocence of ideology. In Moscow manners are no substitute for Marxist morals, or elegance for Engelsian ethics. Izvestia, speaking in terms recognizable to Western criticism, denounced "the all-corrosive and therefore all-justifying irony of Wilde's esthetic principle" as being "far from the true realistic satire" of Swift and Dickens. Izvestia dubbed it "the principle of decadence," and flayed the performers for entering "so deeply into their parts that they lost their touch with reality. They seem to have forgotten whom they are portraying-who the play's heroes...