Word: yevtushenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several Soviet emigres disrupted an appearance by prominent Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko last night, attacking his work and accusing him of selling out to the Soviet authorities...
...small demonstration prompted the event's moderator, the curator of the Harvard Film Archive, to cut short Yevtushenko's appearance at the Carpenter Center and escort him from the hall...
...point, a brief fist fight broke out between two members of the audience in the rear of the Carpenter Center auditorium, where Yevtushenko was addressing a crowd of several hundred...
...year-old Yevtushenko, whose poems about the Stalin era, anti-Semitism, and other topics made him a popular hero in the 1960s, is accorded special license and privileges by the Soviet authorities, including the freedom to travel to the United States...
...this an evening to interrogate my honesty? I am fed up with such shameful questions," Yevtushenko angrily declared as members of the audience bombarded him with accusatory questions...