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...like Commencement, however, for waking up from a reading period stupor. There is, as the man once said, "always something" to slap you in the face, to dash a little cold water at you before you start out on a hot summer day. The slap this year came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who journeyed down from exile in Vermont to pick up an honorary degree and chide America for flabby morals and a lack of purpose. The national press took note, as it usually does when people start talking about morals or anything else at a Harvard Commencement, and even...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was very definitely wrong when he attacked humanism and said that Western man needed to go back to spiritualism to redeem himself." Humanist Chaplain Thomas M. Ferrick said in a speech at Phillips Brooks House last night...
...ALEKSANDR Solzhenitsyn has the type of personality that stands out in any crowd. Even seated among his fellow honorary degree recipients at Commencement last June, as illustrious a group of political figures, authors and scientists as you're likely to find...there seems to be something remarkable about...
Nora Ephron The Gulag Archipelago III, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
...Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, exiled Soviet novelist--Doctor of Letters...