Word: yevtushenko
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...poet just turned 30, whose work is of dubious literary merit, Yevgeny Yevtushenko has been the subject of an inordinate amount of publicity. And for a man with less than subtle political beliefs, he has been the victim of gross and continual misunderstanding...
...Yevtushenko's A Precocious Autobiography, one of the few books by a Soviet author to be published abroad in recent years without official approval, does little to enhance the author's literary reputation. But then Yevtushenko is most important as a political and social figure, not as a man of letters, and this slim volumne does contribute greatly to an understanding of his politics...
...clear before it is now: Yevtushenko is not an alienated, radical dissenter from Soviet society...
...answer to an article which appeared in yesterday's New York Times, Sokolov denied that anyone at the Embassy had assured Princeton students Friday the Soviet writer would make his scheduled trip. "No one here confirmed or denied Yevtushenko's plans because no one spoke to anyone at Princeton," he said...
...face of the Sokolov denial, Princeton students maintained that an Embassy official had informed them by telephone on Friday that the controversial poet would speak at their cultural symposium April 19-21. "When I spoke to Mr. Bugrov at the Embassy this morning, he said Yevtushenko was still coming." James M. Stuart, chairman of the symposium, said yesterday. "Since then, of course, I've found out differently," he added...