Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capable of earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on his own and had, in fact, been working part time, which disturbed Sunny because she wanted all of his attention. There is a report that Von Bülow considered divorcing her and had consulted her doctor to see if she could withstand the stress. There is also the suggestion that Von Bülow's stepchildren are upset because Sunny's will gives him control of her estate until 21 years after her death...
...Polish doctor who was shot by invading German troops in 1939, Rakowski emerged from the war a fervent Communist and, for a while, a committed Stalinist. Rakowski's taste for reform developed in 1956, when Wladyslaw Gomulka became head of the Polish Communist Party, promising greater freedom and economic progress. Under Rakowski's editorship, Polityka refused to join a campaign against the Catholic Church in 1966. In 1968 Rakowski, who was by then a deputy member of the Central Committee, not only refused to support an anti-Semitic purge but protected the Jews who worked...
...through the night Pasternak died, and the worn kitchen table where Pasternak lifted toasts of vodka the day he learned he had won the Nobel Prize. Upstairs is the oak desk where he wrote, surrounded by shelves lined with hundreds of his books, including foreign language editions of Doctor Zhivago, which is still banned in the Soviet Union...
Yevgeni Pasternak rejects suggestions that Litfund's action is an officially inspired attempt to denigrate his father's memory. Indeed in recent years there have been modest efforts to "rehabilitate" Pasternak. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death in 1980, several poems from Doctor Zhivago were printed in the Soviet literary magazine, Novy...
...Pasternak's son is sparing no effort to save his father's house and has challenged the Writers' Union to take him to court. Until it is legal to read Doctor Zhivago aloud in the Soviet Union, he says, he will fight in every way he can to keep alive the memory of the author who wrote of his countrymen, "You are eternity's hostage, a captive of time...