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5 picks · 1963–1965

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III-FREEZE AND THAW: THE ARTIST IN SOVIET RUSSIA
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the cultural freeze that gripped Russia during the winter of 1962-3 when writer was an American exchange student in Leningrad. The …

II-FREEZE AND THAW: THE ARTIST IN RUSSIA.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about several controversial Russian intellectuals. The regime fears its intellectuals and also regards them as instruments for pursuing …

FREEZE AND THAW: THE ARTISTS IN RUSSIA
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about official pressure on aritsts in Russia. Neizvestny differs in several respects from the beleagured cultural workers with hom he is …

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS III-MOSCOW.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the final rehearsals of the Moscow production of "The Fifth Column," by Ernest Hemingway, put on by a new group called the …

A PLAY IN THREE ACTS II-LENINGRAD.
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about attending further rehearsals, in Leningrad, of "The Fifth Column", a play by Ernest Hemingway, being produced by the Contemporary …