Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City, the poet created an atmosphere of almost monastic serenity. A large, white, Russian Orthodox church candle burning on the podium provided virtually the only lighting. "It is more intimate for you, my friends," Voznesensky explained to an audience that included Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and C.P. Snow. As Poet William Jay Smith, a favored translator and friend, read English versions from Nostalgia for the Present, Voznesensky could be glimpsed in the wings, his slight figure rigid with apprehension, as if braced for combat. Following the English readings, Voznesensky moved forward to recite the Russian originals. Among them...
...notice how the snow glowed? Late that first night when it was still falling I went outside to watch. And I saw it: the whole sky was filled with green light...
...arrived in Harvard Square and I stepped back out into the snow. It was coming down very hard, but there were a lot of people around, a crowd milling on the sidewalk...
...rescue squad put an emergency dressing on the wound and carried the man to their truck on a stretcher. I stood there watching as the truck drove off and was swallowed up by the swirling snow...
...crowd of people dispersed, and all that was left was some blood and stray pieces of gauze dressing on the sidewalk. But the snow was quickly covering up that...