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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...
Yevtushenko had originally planned a six-week visit to this country, lasting from mid-April until the end of May. His stop in Cambridge, sponsored by the Advocate in conjunction with the Slavic Department, was to include a public lecture, with translator, on the role of the artist in society, and a reading of his poems in Russian...
Todd said yesterday that after this first attack Yevtushenko wrote the Indiana Slavic Department to say that he still planned to come to the U.S. More recently, however, the publication in the Paris weekly newspaper L'Express of Yevtushenko's outspoken autobiography has redoubled the anger of Soviet officials...
Guts abound in almost any field. Yale's classic was "TB" (Tennyson and Browning), taught by the late William Lyons Phelps, who reportedly never gave anyone less than a B. Harvard's football players have an inexhaustible interest in Slavic folklore; when Slavic 146 was last offered in 1961, the entire team huddled for the first lecture. The University of Texas offers Pharmacy 340 ("Home Emergency Health Problems"), which is better known as "Band-Aids" for the probing depth of its exams: "Name ten items you would expect to find in a family medicine chest...
...French Medievalist Etienne Gilson, who now commutes between Paris and Toronto. Generally recognized as tops of its kind in North America, the institute has produced at least 100 graduates now adding scholarly luster to U.S. Catholic philosophy departments. In addition, the university itself has set up new institutes-Slavic, Islamic, East Asian-sharply broadening St. Mike's vistas...