Word: titova
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Mrs. Titova was "very much pleased to find everyone so friendly and cordial to us," she has not been particularly surprised by anything she has seen: "At home everybody reads and studies all about America, so we had an idea of what to expect, and what we have found corresponds to what we had learned. But you must not think that it is only a few people with special training who know about America. No (Mrs. Titova drew out the and shook her head for emphasis), no, everyone wants to learn about the United States. Our two countries...
...Titova mentioned that Harvard was well known and respected among Russians. "Before we came here we were at the State University in New Hampshire. At Hampshire we found that the students were not so serious in their studies. Forty per cent of those who study there, in fact, don't ever finish. But it is very different here at Harvard. I came into the dormitory here (Moors Hall) the other evening at 1:45 and there I could see a girl in her room still studying her lessons. The people here work as hard as they do at home...
...Titova mentioned that she had met several students and teachers in Russian studies, and that she had been impressed by their familiarity with the Russian language and literature. "But they only seem to know about the classical authors: Tolstoi, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov. These, of course, are very good, but we also have many fine contemporary poets and novelists. All you see here is Pasternak; everyone reads Pasternak. In my country Pasternak is also very well known, but he is known as a translator of Shakespeare's plays. His writing as such is generally considered second-rate. Most students here haven...
...things which has most disturbed Mrs. Titova during her visit has been the pervading emphasis on sex in American advertising and motion pictures. "Last night," she remarked, "we saw a film with a very strange name--Let's Make Love. We had heard of Miss Monroe as a famous American artist; but in this picture we never saw her wearing a dress, she was always half naked. Yves Montand is also well known in the Soviet Union. But he is known as a serious actor, not as he is in this film. We did not like it; it was without...
...campaign and election, Mrs. Titova did not think it proper to comment, as "this is your internal affair." She did say, however, that all the buttons and stickers struck her as frivolous and that in the U.S.S.R. election were taken more seriously...