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...practice that most of his prophecies are false. I must not intrude on Mr. Gromyko's preserve, but I will be very surprised if the young generation of Russians are not rapidly arriving at the same conclusion. Very slowly, but I think perceptibly, the processes of the thaw in international life have be gun ... If imperialism is going out of the window, so is Marx. Good riddance...
...statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost...
...banquet celebrating the trade agreement. Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko carried the thaw a bit further by pledging that "all attempts by the imperialists and various reactionaries to seek fissures in the relations between the Soviet Union and China are doomed to failure." But despite the slight show of conciliation on both sides, the Communist world's most fascinating quarrel seemed a long way from being patched...
...snows have melted since Joseph Stalin's death in March 1953. In the political and social thaw that has followed the tyrant's end, regimentation persists but the cruder kinds of terror have vanished almost as completely as the snow. To the 100 million Russians who are under 25 today, and who make up nearly a half of the Soviet Union's entire population, Stalinism is little more than a bad childhood memory. They have not been broken by the fear that haunts their fathers nor infected with the blind faith that guided some of their Bolshevik...
...Numbers. Evtushenko has powerful friends at court, notably Voronov, a member of Pravda's editorial board, and, through him, Izvestia Editor Alexis Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. Another influential supporter is 71-year-old Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave history's chapter heading to destalinization. In 1960 Evtushenko rated a passport, has subsequently wandered widely in Western Europe, Africa and elsewhere abroad. On two trips to Cuba he gathered material for a movie scenario, visited the house where Hemingway wrote...