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Izvestia, which occasionally prints revealing news for its cautionary effect, last week told the story of a defector named Aleksandr ("Sasha") Mirilenko. Sasha was the 18-year-old son of a Ukrainian cultural worker and his teacher wife, both Communists. Always daydreaming about life outside Russia, Sasha started collecting foreign stamps and writing to collectors in other countries. As his pen pals began telling him about the good things on the other side of the Iron Curtain, Sasha's allegiance to the Young Communist League began to falter. He went to the Black Sea resort of Yalta, where...
...animal doesn't understand what fasting is. It might be worried if its food did not arrive. It would wonder what it had done wrong." Comedian Charlie Chester: "It's all bilge. If I want to help the hungry, I won't drag my poodle Sasha into it." N. J. Lambert of the Canine Defense League: "The cardinal's idea seems fatuous. It would be punishing the animals. They would not know what it was for." Then he threw in a bit of startling theology: "We have some animals who behave in a more Christian...
...Martial Singher worked on Berlioz' Villanelle with a group of operatic hopefuls. In another cottage, Pianist Claude Frank discussed with Violinist Zvi Zeitlin how to weave the frail melodies of the strings with the fluttering piano passages of Gabriel Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1. Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider ran through a set of Beethoven sonatas with Artistic Director Serkin's twelve-year-old son, Peter, at the piano. And in the pine-paneled concert hall, Pablo Casals, 83, conducted a chamber orchestra in Mozart's G-Minor Symphony, using a yellow pencil as a baton...
Inna, the girl friend who had sponsored Sasha's application, blushed crimson, and Vitali paled in horror. Then, according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, everybody decided that it was just too ridiculous-good old Sasha must have been kidding-and they accepted him anyway. Later, when his membership came up for confirmation by the school Komsomol committee, he admitted once again that he believed in God. His father had been giving him Bible instruction ever since he was a little boy. But when Sasha denied going to church or wearing a cross, the committee decided to confirm his membership...
...this, intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda, is symptomatic of a dreadful laxity. First, if Sasha's classmates had been the militant atheists they should have been, they would have found out about his non-atheism earlier and gone to work on him. And second, they should never have admitted him. "In our country," lectured Komsomolskaya Pravda, "the first country of mass atheism in the world, religion is a citizen's private affair. But how can Komsomol members consider religion a private affair when it affects the Komsomol? They were not admitting him to a club of pigeon fanciers...