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...youth branch of the Communist Party as a teen-age worker in a textile plant, then climbed through a series of party posts. Closely allied with Nikita Khrushchev, she became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...alot raid. They were bound for Kibbutz Ein Gev and Kibbutz Haon by the Sea of Galilee to carry out similar raids in order to free fedayeen prisoners in Israel. In Jerusalem, three Arabs were arrested and accused of setting Katyusha (after the Russian affectionate form of "Katya") rockets, discovered the week before, that were aimed and primed to fire on the city from a neighboring hill...
...people should come to the opera as they go to hear a pop band," he said. "Opera is a folk art, like bullfighting and prizefighting." His future repertory, he hinted, would vary standard fare with such works as Berlioz's Les Troyens, Janáček's Katya Kabanova and Rossini's frothy L'ltaliana in Algeri. He also had hopes of sponsoring intimate productions on some separate, smaller stage...
Slightly reminiscent of Saul Bellow's Herzog, who in his imagination writes letters to everybody, Svetlana addresses one and all, including God. Her words to her daughter: "My darling Katya, my heart's blood, straight as a rowan tree, sweet as a cherry, what have I done to you?! I have left you all alone, my love, and how you must be crying there now, though you are such a brave girl and don't like to be a crybaby, my little one. . . . Let them all condemn me-and you condemn me as well, if that will...
...triumph of sentimentality, doom never really happens. Only the right dragons are finally slain. There is little dirt, little passion. Even the style is a mechanical stringing together of cliches. But the computerized formula seems to work. Author "K. B. Gilden" is actually the husband and wife team named Katya and Bert Gilden. They sold the movie rights for this first novel to Hollywood in a sliding-scale deal that could bring them more than...