Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boris Pasternak for Doctor Zhivago-also, for his honesty and integrity, for his fearlessness and self-sacrifice. M. KOFFLER Brooklyn...
...Rules. When Stalin died, Pasternak wrote his novel Doctor Zhivago out of a passionate Christian conviction that salvation is possible only through the individual human spirit. He had shown that spirit in conflict with Soviet society, against which he had sharp things to say -but he had not written merely a political tract. Yet his message undercut the whole dogma of the socialist panacea, as Pasternak's Moscow editors worriedly said in their surprisingly mild 1956 letter of rejection, which was made public in Russia last fortnight...
Everyone was aware of the burdens a septuagenarian was shouldering. The Pope's doctor, Paolo Venchierutti, has announced that the somewhat overweight Pontiff (205 Ibs.) "has a robust stamina unweakened by the years." He generally sleeps no more than six hours a night-retiring at 10 and rising at 4. But however strong his body and short his sleep, the problems that confront his reign are a formidable legacy...
...Country doctor Jean Gabin manages to make natural childbirth seem so natural that his patient is permitted to have her baby on screen...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...