Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CANCER WARD by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Rebecca Frank. 616 pages. Dial...
Barely a month after the launching of The First Circle (TIME cover, Sept. 27), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward has been published in an English translation. As a special kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...
Flashbacks. It isn't easy. For one thing, some of the labels are at least partly true. Cancer makes for strange ward-fellows. The inmates of Solzhenitsyn's ward include men and women from the farthest reaches of the Soviet Union -peasants, ex-prisoners, exiles, bureaucrats, students. When confronted with death, they express jagged-and politically damning-insights into the everyday enormities of life as it had been under Joseph Stalin. Perhaps most shocking are the flashbacks of a powerful party functionary, now suffering from cancer of the throat, who recalls denouncing a friend to the secret police...
...Wall Street area, where building activity and crowding are most intense, lines form in front of hot-dog carts at lunchtime, and a sign in a Broad Street bookstore reads: "Please-no browsing from 12 to 2." Says Architect Percival Goodman: "Size can mean healthy growth or cancer. In New York, it's become cancer...
Died. Julius Fleischmann, 68, heir to the Fleischmann liquor fortune, who used his wealth to help finance the Ballet Russe, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera and numerous Broadway plays (Pygmalion, 1946; Caesar and Cleopatra, 1949); of cancer; in Cincinnati...