Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absurd Exchanges. As Soviet reporters told it (Western newsmen were excluded from the courtroom), Prosecutor Temushkin did it in predictable style: with the aid and assistance of Judge Lev Smirnov plus two "public prosecutors" and a carefully selected audience of 70, mainly fellow authors and critics. Sinyavsky and Daniel argued that they were not guilty because their works were essentially literature, not propaganda. Sniffed Judge Smirnov: "The court is not involved in literary discussions. Answer us-do you recognize that works written by you have a sincerely anti-Soviet character?" But when Sinyavsky began his reply, "Before answering the question...
...Daniel: No, this is art, literary hyperbole...
...judge and two lay assessors will deliver the verdict this week. There was little doubt of what it would be, since Prosecutor Temushkin was already demanding the maximum twelve-year sentence for Sinyavsky and eight years for Daniel...
...until the First Lateran Council in 1123 that clerical marriage was clearly outlawed, and even after that priests, bishops and cardinals continued to skirt the rule by taking mistresses. Alexander VI fathered at least four children before he became Pope in 1492. French Historian Henri Daniel-Rops estimated that in 15th century Burgundy, half the children born out of wedlock were fathered by clerics...
Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, better known pseudonymously as Abrarri Tertz and Nikolai Arzha--are about to stand trial for publishing books that criticize conditions under Communism (TIME...