Word: pravda
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...Pravda, not certain how far it should go in endorsing bourgeois decadence, cautiously found the opening night a "big success." But the response of the crowds on the second night, when Balanchine's dancers repeated the program in the new Kremlin Palace of Congresses, indicated that it was considerably more than that. Young Russian dancers, ballet students and just plain fans crowded to the stage at evening's end and clapped until the lights were turned off. One source of amazement to the Russians, accustomed to illustrious but superannuated dancers loath to abandon the footlights, was the extreme...
...protested to train officials, but the conductor insisted that he could do nothing. The visitors, he explained, were not subject to Soviet law; the nude gambolers were the losers in a decadent Western game that the Americans called "strip poker." Among stilyagi, the Soviet Teddy boys on whom Komsomolskaya Pravda lavishes most of its sermons, it could catch on like the Twist...
...guardian of Soviet morality, junior grade, the Communist Party youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda frequently berates students for hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists. Fortnight ago, the newspaper turned with relish on a new target: a group of 44 U.S. students from U.C.L.A. and other schools whose low jinks aboard the Moscow-Warsaw express would, if true, have stirred a furor on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa...
...students called the newspaper's account highly exaggerated. But Komsomolskaya Pravda insisted that the railroad revel began in Moscow, when the college kids approached train No. 13, "bawling bawdy songs and clinging to each other like sailors during a storm." No sooner had the wheels begun to roll than "these savages from overseas started to guzzle liquor and shriek wildly. They tossed pillows at each other and stuck lampshades on their heads. Then they took their clothes off and began running after the girls in their own delegation...
...evoke religious feeling. Religious music contains great compositions, such as the requiems of Mozart and Verdi, but I do not take it as religious music-I take it as secular music." Asked how he now feels about his opera, A Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was denounced by Pravda in 1936 (reportedly because Stalin did not like it), Shostakovich revealed that he was rewriting it: "I did not like the old version; in vocal parts I abused high and low registers. This has been corrected...