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This time, instead of overt defiance, the liberals concentrated on tactical victories and "a moderate, measured show of strength," as Slonimski put it. The large Warsaw chapter of the union voted down most of the government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within...
...Soviet society, that he was a man who "in spirit has long been a traitor to his country and has now spat in its face." The satellites fell tamely into line as the literary hacks of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania echoed the denunciations by Soviet hacks. Only Antoni Slonimski, head of the cantankerous Polish Writers' Association, sent Pasternak a congratulatory telegram and, at week's end, was still unrepentant...
Levine also stated that Nicholas Slonimski, Boston music critic, had agreed to speak on the same platform with Shostakovitch. Howard Hanson, American composer and president of the Eastman School of Music, has tentatively accepted an HLU invitation to speak if Shostakovitch comes between Wednesday, April 20, and Sunday, April...
Consensus of opinion at a forum on "Is the Soviet an Enigma" in the Lowell House Common Room monday night was that Communism has greatly improved many aspects of Russian life. Nicholas Slonimski, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, stated that music audiences in the Soviet have increased many fold since the Czarist regime was overthrown. A member of the Communist Party gave statistics to show that Soviet industrial power has been growing steadily, particularly in the last ten years, and regeneration of Soviet science was emphasized by Dirk Strulk...
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