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After several weeks of stunned silence. Moscow's cultural commissars last week slapped Stalin Prizewinner Nekrasov good and hard. His "insulting attitude" toward the security official was bad enough, huffed an editorial in Izvestia. Worse, said the paper, "it is altogether unclear how a Soviet writer contrives not to see the striking social contrasts and class contradictions of American life and the military psychosis fanned by imperialist circles." Nekrasov's error was in trying to give a balanced picture-''black and white sides of American life on a fifty-fifty basis." This, ruled Izvestia, was nothing...
Soviet Novelist Victor Nekrasov, 51, toured the U.S. in November 1960. and from his glowing words in the past two issues of Moscow's literary magazine Novy Mir, he must have enjoyed himself. "Honest to God, beautiful," he declared of the view of sleek skyscraper apartments along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. There were slums and poverty in Manhattan, he reported, but what seemed to strike him was the 21-in. TV sets in every hotel room, and museums crammed with "abundant and varied" treasures...
...would have been a perfect trip, in fact, but for the ever-present security agent assigned to shepherd Nekrasov's 19-man delegation of Russian writers, teachers and engineers. "He was in a state of constant worry, and counted us every minute like chickens," complained Nekrasov. "The most terrible thing for him was if you said. 'I don't want to go to the National Gallery; I want to go to the Guggenheim, or just walk down Broadway.' It was this 'just walking' that he feared in particular for some reason...
...rescuers, is a horrifying allegory aimed subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant for the bewildered and inarticulate...
...flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully one-third of his reader is unadulterated literature-poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov, old Russian fables and seven assorted stories and anecdotes by Leo Tolstoy, including his Russian version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears...