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YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO, BABII YAR AND OTHER POEMS (Caedmon). Russia's most prominent licensed nonconformist renders his role as rebellious poet in wax, and the impression is not flattering. A listener with no knowledge of Russian can have only an approximate sense of the quality of the original language in Yevtushenko's reading. The contents of the verses, however, can be judged in Alan Bates's English translation, and they do not seem to burn with artistic flame-they itch like inflammations. Except for the famous piece Babii Yar, which is more an emphatic speech than a poem...
...mass of lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director Kershner pounces upon an idea without developing it, and his commendable desire to do a different sort of comedy boils down into more of the same old wheeze-just another nonconformist nut matching wits with even nuttier psychiatrists...
Conscience v. Status. The report says that most students express general satisfaction with Cal, yet even these "cannot isolate themselves from nonconformist attitudes and ideas: they react positively or negatively." The nonconformists believe that most American adults, including their teachers, are "sacrificing conscience to the quest for status" and that "a man must fight hypocrisy to live in a moral world." Yet their own obsession with "keeping cool" is also hypocritical, argues the committee. Their desire for "instant love, instant poetry, instant psychoanalysis and instant mysticism" is just a "form of escape from hard work," clothed in a "quasi-moral...
Disdain for the Flesh. Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government. The Freedomites are part of a Russian nonconformist movement called the Doukhobors (literally "spirit wrestlers"), who came to Canada in 1899 and now number some 14,000 strong. Believing that man owes his only allegiance to God, the Freedomites are violently defiant of all "worldly" authority, including the Canadian government. To show their disdain for things of the flesh (and reveal a lot of their...
GENERATION. The battle between age groups is second only to the battle of the sexes as the stuff of which life and plays are made. William Goodhart makes it laughing matter in a lighthearted comedy about a doting father (Henry Fonda) who finds his daughter and her nonconformist husband living in a Greenwich Village loft and-much to dad's discomfort-liking...