Word: literaturnaya
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...wooden panels are celebrated as one of the most sublime achievements of Russian culture. Even though the Soviet government still severely discourages popular support of the Orthodox faith, icons have lately regained some of their old luster and status in the U.S.S.R., and have inspired what Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta calls an "Icon Klondike...
...been buying the traditional paintings, both for their timeless beauty and as a practical hedge against inflation. The images have become so popular that last week Russians were buying up a first edition of a samovar-table book on the subject (with 50 color plates) at $11 a copy. Literaturnaya Gazeta complained that some citizens purchased icons simply to "create an illusion of eccentricity of thinking or way of life"-in other words, to express their individuality. The images remain a sufficiently powerful symbol of religion and the old regime that many collectors feel compelled to keep them...
Times must be hard for the enemies of capitalist decadence; Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta has laid down a heavy ideological barrage against Film Director Alfred Hitchcock, accusing him of "antihumanistic attitude toward art" and "psychological sadism." But as so often happens, a Communist putdown is a bourgeois blurb. "Millions of his spectators," says the Gazeta, "take Hitchcock's sinister feelings seriously and sigh with relief when the dark in the movie house is dispelled and the lights come on again...
...matter is also believed to have been discussed at the hastily called Crimean summit conference two weeks ago attended by all Soviet bloc countries except Rumania. In what was read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow...
...Owns Boardwalk? While the impact of the Pentagon papers continues to reverberate in the U.S., a Marxist explanation comes from the Soviet magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the Russian view, the secret study was published because three factions of monopolists were warring among themselves...