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Signs that the Soviet Union wants to get back on the road to detente have been numerous this week. Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper which usually devotes much space to haranguing Washington, ran several front page editorials calling for "normal, and better yet, friendly" relations with the United States. Such improved relations, wrote one editorialist, "would meet the interests of both peoples and universal peace." Speeches by new Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov and Prime Minister Nikolai A. Tikhonov expressed thoughts similar to those put forth in Pravda...
...American-Soviet Trade and Economic Council meeting held last week in Moscow for showing an "inclination" to improve trade 'links between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. "Sound trade strengthens foundations for peaceful, good-neighborly relations which are of much importance for the international situation as a whole, "Pravda maintained...
Boardsailers receive some official encouragement, but rock groups and their fans have come under increasing attack in the Soviet press. One group called Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine) was denounced in the Communist youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda for "giving thousands of spectators dangerous injections of dubious ideas." As expressed in Time Machine lyrics, the ideas (for example: "There's no point in believing promises any more") hardly seem likely to set off alarm bells in the Kremlin. Still, Time Machine has made no albums and has been banned from playing in Moscow. New regulations have forced discos to cut back...
Equally disturbing as rock to the Soviet authorities has been the growth of unauthorized clubs of teen-age soccer followers, known as fanaty, or fans. According to a censorious article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, fanaty members are senior technical-and vocational-school students from Moscow's working-class quarter. Characterizing them as a "dubious tribe of sports-minded hooligans," the paper criticized them for picking fights in the subway, waking up neighborhoods with their all-night singing, and defacing walls and bridges with graffiti boosting their teams...
Although the 15 symphonies are his best-known works, it is likely that a truer portrait of the composer is to be found in the quartets. After Shostakovich's daring opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was denounced in the pages of Pravda as "muddle instead of music," he apologized with the Fifth Symphony (1937), a "creative reply to just criticism." Censured by a Communist Party resolution of 1948 for "formalistic distortions and antidemocratic tendencies," Shostakovich wrote two of his next three symphonies about the Russian Revolution. But these works were for official consumption; spiritually, Shostakovich went underground to express...