Word: poem
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...Poem of Praise...
...college audiences were more knowledgeable and less wild. Many students came up after the concerts to ask questions and start conversations. And one economics student wrote a poem praising the performance...
...starred romance leads to murder and suicide-scarcely helps matters. The one pleasing aria and the single engaging duet could hardly be expected to mollify a fastidious audience. Even the most pious Verdi worshipers could not help applying to their hero the only couplet in Byron's windy poem that is worth remembering...
...soldier's return was chronicled in a subtle, stylish new poem by Tvardovsky that was spread across two pages of Izvestia under a warmly approving introduction by Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. In Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
...Russians to stop harping on Stalinism, which has been Khrushchev's line of late. Terkin's resurrection was a sign that Khrushchev had decided to soften a campaign against controversial writing that has been going on since December. In fact, Editor Adzhubei noted reassuringly, Nikita liked the poem and laughed loudly when it was read to him before publication...