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Like wolves in winter, the circle of Communist critics tightened around brash young Poet Evgeny Evtushenko last week. The Kremlin announced a full meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee next month to discuss "ideological" matters-meaning the crackdown on Evtushenko and other maverick intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling...
...property at Noddle's Island was granted to Maverick "to enjoy to him and his heirs forever" and, in fact, remained in the family for some time. Apparently the last of the Mavericks to hold the land was the original Samuel's great-grandson, who was killed in the Boston Massacre. The Mavericks then moved gradually southward, eventually to found the famed Maverick clan of Texas...
...first of these Mavericks was another Samuel, one of the great cattlemen of the nineteenth century who, leaving his cattle unbranded, made "maverick" a common as well as a proper noun. His grandson Maury Maverick was a controversial Texas Congressman and reform-minded mayor of San Antonio; Maury Maverick, Jr., is a lawyer, writer, and leading spokesman for the Texas liberal movement...
...Maverick family homestead did not fare so well as the Mavericks did themselves. The old acerage became in the mid-nineteenth century a rather reputable, almost elegant, community of proper Bostonians, but as the century subsided so did Noddle's Island...
...East Boston, an area populated largely by immigrant groups living in sub-standard housing. At the center of this area is Maverick Square...