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Whatever problems arise, however, there are assured benefits, maybe even some political gains. "I don't think we can resolve all our differences through cultural exchanges," says Yevtushenko, "but we can create a special atmosphere of trust. And this will make it easier to sign political and nuclear agreements." If that is perhaps too hopeful, the pleasure and enrichment for American and Soviet audiences is enough in itself. And the exchanges should help to make the two superpowers less disagreeable when they choose to disagree. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and William Stewart/Washington...
...grant an indulgence, plenary or perennial, To Ogden Nash on his centenary, or centennial. He trod 'mongst giants like Eliot and cummings and Thomas and Kazantzakis and Frost and Yevtushenko and Neruda and Schwartz (now all dead) In a day when poets were not only renowned but read. True, Nash did not quite roost in the exalted company of these Everest nest-dwellers, But he published more than 20 volumes of extremely popular light verse, and if he dwelt in cellars, they were best-cellars. He wrote, he lectured, and he was not too arch or arty To appear...
...video surfaced in Moscow in which a weary-looking Babitsky said, "I hope I will be back home soon." Last week Alexander Yevtushenko, a Pravda correspondent, reported that former inmates of a prison in Gudermes claimed to have seen Babitsky looking physically and psychologically beaten. For those attempting to predict the future of Russia, the ongoing plight of Babitsky is an ominous sign. The Chechen war has been waged under a news blockade, but now Russian journalists fear that a new campaign is emerging against the press itself...
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko will have proved insightful should Russians vote for Communists in the election. He wrote, "Those who are conceived in a cage yearn for a cage." STEVE HARHAJ New Brighton, Minnesota...
From the poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko...