Word: yevtushenko
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However, Terence Cogley '65, president of the Advocate, which was to sponsor Yevtushenko's stay at Harvard, said he had received no official word...
...Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the controversial young Russian poet, will not visit Harvard, it was learned yesterday...
News of the cancellation did not come as much of a surprise, since Yevtushenko's writing, which is often critical of the Soviet Union, has recently brought condemnation from Soviet political leaders. At a meeting with artists and writers last month, Premier Nikita Khrushchev singled out the 29-year-old poet and novelist Ilya Ehrenburg for severe censure...
...controversy and uncertainty remained in many minds even as late as yesterday afternoon. Oleg M. Sokolov, the press attache of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, told the CRIMSON that he had "no idea" whether the poet would visit the United States. "Any information about the trip must come from Yevtushenko himself," he said...
...denouncing the autobiography, articles in the Soviet press demanded last week that Yevtushenko and other young writers be prevented from making further trips abroad until they "mature politically...