Word: communisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conformity." And it is the political need to conform which Lattimore sees as the real threat to society. It is this need, he points out, which leads to "a paternalistic authoritarian attitude" on the part of a government which "rests on the assumption that a man will believe in communism if he is exposed to it. This seems to me an appalling lack of confidence in the virtues of democracy. A democracy that has to be shielded from opinions is to be pitied...
...every political windmill and ambulance-chased every passing cause. This was what Sartre called "engagement." Pasternak calls for disengagement. By that he does not mean detachment from the world, but attachment to human values. It is not the function of the writer, says Pasternak, to serve principalities and powers. Communism or capitalism. The task of men of letters, as he sees it, is to heed "the living voice of life," to bear witness to the good, the true and the beautiful. By example, Pasternak calls on writers to return to the universal themes of life and death...
...praise of the continuity of life, which for Pasternak means resurrection. It is, finally, a novel dedicated to the primacy of the individual and his private life in defiance of superstates, of groupthink, of social and ideological regimentation. If this is a devastating indictment of the essence of Communism, it is by implication equally critical of much that is currently lodged in Western habits of thought; for the book flatly pits the individual against "adjustment to the group," the soul's need against economic need, the organic against the mechanical...
...until the Nobel Prize fracas. French, German or English may be spoken (Pasternak is fluent in all three). Pasternak asserts his aloofness from the Marxist world around him with quiet and kindly dignity. Once, in a conversation with a Swedish professor, he started to make some critical comment about Communism, then suddenly interrupted himself. "Possibly you are a Communist," he solicitously asked his caller. "Am I hurting your feelings...
Stinson also revealed that the HDC will be unable to produce Jean-Paul Sartre's Nekrassov, the play which was selected for the third major production last week. It was to have been the American premiere of Sartre's satire on international communism...