Word: directed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each. The agony of One Day comes from the spectacle of a simple man, laboring and suffering with naive good humor, and all for nothing. For Russian readers this agony is redoubled. Russians have always loved innocents in literature, and the carpenter Ivan is a peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots, a spoon you made from aluminum wire...
...silence did not last. The top of the Soviet hierarchy erupted into controversy over Khrushchev's plan to publish the book, but at his direct authorization the novel appeared in the November issue of Novy Mir. The 95,000-copy press run sold out within days, as did the 100,000 copies in book form that quickly followed; by now, millions of Russians have read it, although it is no longer in bookstores and is gradually disappearing from library shelves...
...September 1967, Solzhenitsyn had a direct confrontation with about 30 functionaries of the Writers' Union, headed by the regime's literary spokesman, Konstantin Fedin. Solzhenitsyn charged anew that his manuscripts had been stolen by the KGB, that publication of Cancer Ward in Novy Mir had been held up so long that there was danger of samizdat copies making
Amoeba with Food. The ruling Party of Republican Institutions (P.R.I.) also found itself under direct attack -something to which it is not accustomed...
Cottle said that the Harvard undergraduates and one non-Harvard graduate student in question will "explicitly fulfill the teaching function." They will remain in the section to direct discussion and suggest readings as their expertise permits. A graduate student will, as in all sections, be officially in charge...