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...start of the attack is frighteningly similar to the one in 1958, when Boris Pasternak was ultimately forced to reject the prize and in the later stages was reviled by party-lining writers as, among other things, "a pig who fouled the spot where he ate." The Solzhenitsyn affair, however, is potentially far more serious. Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was less a political novel than a lyrically philosophical view of the effects of the Revolution on the lives of people. By contrast, Solzhenitsyn's main works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First...
...took one kid out for ice cream," recalls one professor, "and when he ate it he clutched the side of his mouth in pain-his teeth were full of cavities." Violent headaches were common, until teachers realized that many students were too poor to buy needed eyeglasses. Even with glasses, they took a dim view of standard English courses rich in Henry James and Christina Rossetti, whose polished phrases merely provoked bored back-row obscenities...
...spending crazy," LeTendre charged. Agreeing with a disgruntled early morning beer drinker that property tax revenues should not be used for welfare, the candidate argued that Nixon's proposal to share federal revenues with the states would ease the local tax burden. As 60 citizens sipped coffee and ate doughnuts, LeTendre told them Nixon "is bringing our men out of Vietnam." He aligned himself with the deep-seated revulsion against campus violence that was inflamed by an August bombing at the University of Wisconsin. He countered Democratic arguments that defense spending must be cut: "A strong America is more...
...noon, Huberdeau's father and mother and five of their children arrived for Sunday dinner with their son and daughter-in-law. They ate carefully...
...home until the marriage actually took place. In the minor system, which was considered less proper, the girl was taken to the prospective husband's household as an infant or young child, and they were reared as brother and sister until old enough to marry. They ate together, played together, bathed together and, until the age of seven or eight, slept on the same tatami platform...