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...full members: 64). Perhaps that is appropriate for a country where the prominence of yogurt in the diet is thought to promote longevity. The new head of the State Committee on Art and Culture, which rigidly controls intellectual life, is Zhivkov's stern, thin-lipped daughter Liudmila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Gold on Tobacco Road | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...style-spare, exact, free of rhetorical flourish-which set the tone for the epic prose era that was to follow, from Gogol to Chekhov. In rich, full-blooded dramas like Boris Gudunov, he helped to free the Russian stage from its prim, Racine-engendered formalities. Poems like Ruslan and Liudmila, Memory and The Bronze Horseman grandly exploded the prevailing notion of the day that poetry should be either didactic or sentimental. "Good lord," said Pushkin impatiently, "the aim of poetry is poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cloak of Genius | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Russians admire the sober Kosygin more than they do Brezhnev. Correct, levelheaded, with a taste for anonymity and a dull, if cultured, public speaking voice, Kosygin emphasizes moderation and maintenance of peace. He is a widower-his wife Klavdia died of cancer last month-and has a married daughter, Liudmila Gvishiani. For all his drab public façade, Kosygin is capable of sharp, dry wit. On a visit to Britain last February, while dining with Tory Leader Ted Heath, he observed: "It is less fun to be in opposition in some countries than in others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: ALEKSEI KOSYGIN: THE COMPLEAT APPARATCHIK | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

There were talks of substance, but the substance was far overshadowed by the socializing. Kosygin, who was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Liudmila Gvishiani, 38, and his 19-yearold grandson Aleksei, took the entire first floor at Claridge's, from whose haughty marquee flew the hammer and sickle. He dined at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Wilson, who welcomed him as "an old friend, a statesman I personally know to be cool and wise in his judgment, warm in his heart." He met with Britain's top capitalists at the Hyde Park Hotel, mingled with the likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Unsmiling Comrade | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Junior Lieut. Liudmila Pavlichenko, Russian Army girl sniper who killed 309 Germans, had to cancel a radio interview in Manhattan last week because a dentist pulled one of her front teeth and the resulting whistle would have been noticeable on the air waves. But in a non-radio interview with Commentator Alice Hughes, she gave her unvarnished opinion of the U.S. woman's angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lady Sniper | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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