Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full flush of destalinization, wrote Evgeny Evtushenko. 29. the Russian poet whose honest rage at the cant and callousness of Soviet society has made him the idol of his generation. For a while, in fact, it seemed as if Evtushenko (TIME cover. April 13. 1962) had become a semiofficial Angry Young Marxist, whose occasional excesses were tolerated by the regime because they made it appear as if Khrushchev's Communism could actually accept criticism. If so, Evtushenko pushed his luck...
Albert C. Todd, professor of Slavic Studies at Indiana University and sponsor of the tour, stated yesterday that the 29-year old "new wave" poet has not officially cancelled the U.S. trip. He therefore termed journalistic reports that Yevtushenko has already given up the tour "technically untrue," but added that these stories "may forecast what will eventually happen...
...Brecht tended to use sex for comic relief, but Barbara Harris' sly burlesque of a prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation is fluently colloquial if occasionally a shade too matter-of-fact for a playwright who was always a poet. Despite these shortcomings, playgoers jaded on dramatic cream puffs ought to seize the chance to swallow intellectual fire...
Shyest of all intellectuals in the Soviet Union was Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, usually the most outspoken of the lot. Evtushenko had been singled out* by Khrushchev for a scathing attack because of the poet's popularity in the West. After the Premier's blast, he went into seclusion with his wife in a dacha south of Moscow, and last week let word circulate that he had indefinitely "postponed" long-scheduled trips to Italy...
...Mother Goddess was worshiped in the person of the sacred prostitute. Today the idea of erotic relations between heaven and earth persists in the fantasies of a frightening Frenchman named Jean Genet, an abandoned child who became successively a thief, a prostitute, a convict, and the most ferociously brilliant poet now at work in the French theater of the absurd. In The Balcony, a drama that resembles both a burlesque show and a Black Mass. Genet expounds his fantasies in a monstrous metaphor: the world is a vast brothel operated by an infernal, supernal, eternal Madam who sells her customers...