Word: moiseyev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...categories seemed endless. On and on it went, until one irritated critic was moved to ask: "Is there a difference between Best Western Actor with Black Stetson and Best-Dressed Cowboy Excluding Canes and Ruffled Vests?" Almost everyone agreed with Angry Loser Ed Sullivan (his presentation of the brilliant Moiseyev Dancers went without a nod), who came away convinced that the academy's 4,000 members had again turned the election into a personal popularity contest...
Last week word got out that one Soviet star had daringly snarled the party line. He was no less a personage than Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, whose dance troupe scored a notable triumph in the U.S. last year (TIME, May 12). At home last December he stepped to the podium in Moscow's House of Actors and delivered an amazing travelogue. Said he: Even the most informed Russians are badly mistaken about U.S. culture...
...Moiseyev began by saying he would leave discussion of U.S. shortcomings to those ''responsible for such things." i.e., Communist propagandists. Then he spoke glowingly of Broadway's musicals (West Side Story, My Fair Lady), the cornucopia of Manhattan's super-drugstores, the infectious tempo of Manhattan's streets and the variety of its restaurants, the ingenious design of U.S. highways (better than Germany's), the superb discipline of orchestras accompanying his dancers, the "children's land of enchantment" in California's Disneyland. Moiseyev was not without a few gay barbs. He tweaked...
...Moiseyev did not keep the appointment. The Ministry of Culture hauled him in for a "reeducation" session that included a sound bawling-out for "lack of balance." According to the reports that got to the U.S. last week, Moiseyev protested, voiced shock and chagrin at the ministry's reaction. But he would be more careful about what he saw and said in future...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). A rerun of last year's show featuring Russia's brilliant Moiseyev Dancers...