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While at Harvard and in Cambridge, productions are using adaptations of other forms of art, in Boston, Travesties is stealing from life itself. Not literature or film but history is re-written when Lenin, Tristan Tzara, the Dadist and James Joyce meet in a library in Zurich. Their fictive joint story is told by a character who himself re-writes the story as he goes along. Tom Stoppard's scintillating play, studded with allusions to the radicals' works, which never did as well in New York as it deserved, is playing at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, beginning...
...police as an SSRC agitator, another student, Shadrack, 17, met me in a remote section of Soweto. "We are not a bunch of bomb-throwing radicals," he insisted. "Because we struggle for a decent education, the authorities call us Communists. What rubbish! My heroes are not Marx and Lenin. They are Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Our campaign is peaceful, non-Communist and nonviolent. How many police have been killed in this bloodshed? Three? That should prove which side is the violent one." (Officially, the SSRC has deplored firebombings buttressing its boycott...
...Soviets were intrigued from the start by the idea of the exchange," noted one top U.S. official. Indeed, the Kremlin had long and loudly campaigned for the release of Corvalán, who headed Latin America's largest Communist Party and holds the Order of Lenin, the Soviets' top peacetime decoration. "Corvalán is a splendid prize for the Kremlin," observed British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz. "He can now be set up as the highly visible and potent center for Communist opposition to the Chilean junta." Bukovsky, on the other hand, had proved to be a considerable embarrassment...
...decisive blow was delivered by Steve Schorr, who, seized by the question "What is to be done?" answered Lenin's call by galloping 95 yards into freedom...
...considering Hammer's extensive relations with the Soviet Union--he has had dealings with Russian leaders as diverse as Lenin and Trotsky and was the motivating force behind a huge phosphorus deal with the Soviets several years ago--it didn't come as any surprise when he said he would give money to the current Russian Research Center Fund Drive...