Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes it seemed as if the most important event in every country's politics this year was the inauguration of John F. Kennedy as U.S. President. In chancelleries around the world, officials pored over his utterances as once they studied the statements of Stalin. Quite suddenly, everybody seemed to be blaming all the things that had gone wrong on the old Eisenhower Administration, and looking vaguely to the new Kennedy Administration as if they expected it to solve all their most aggravating problems. In the midst of the dreamier hopes and expectations, there were a few specifics...
...Western ways in his next opera, which proved to be his last. Ten months later. The Story of a Real Man was submitted to the Composers' Union, was promptly banned as "anti-melodious" and still reeking with "the decay of bourgeois culture." Now, long after his official post-Stalin rehabilitation and seven years after his death (on the same day as Stalin's), Prokofiev's Real Man is finally being performed for Moscow audiences...
...opera proved that the cultural commissars Lad a supersensitive nose for bourgeois decay and no ear for music. They had completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems...
...under the name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such as Risë Stevens, Philadelphia Banker Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (whose career he transformed into the Broadway hit, The Happiest Millionaire...
Accompanying Simonov were Yokena , a literary scholar in modern American writing: Vera Panova, whose poetry and prose won Stalin Prizes; and Eduardas B. a Lithuanian writer of and children's books...