Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, by Boris Pasternak. The man who won the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature was not allowed to accept it, but he produced the most remarkable novel to come out of Russia since the Revolution-a sprawling, lyrical, religious reaffirmation of man's right to be free and to be himself...
...section, Pasternak takes pains to make his protagonist's loyalties unmistakable. The partisan commander is a cocaine-sniffing hophead whom Dr. Zhivago loathes, as much for his boring platitudes as for his cruelty. By contrast, when a band of teen-age White soldiers storms the Red positions, the doctor admires their gallantry. He feels that he must shoot in self-defense, but he cannot bring himself to aim at the boys who "were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral values." And so, in a perfect illustration of Zhivago's essential refusal to do harm...
Weather of the Heart. An oldtime literary colleague of Pasternak's and a party-liner, who has managed to survive Moscow's murderous political traffic by carefully watching the Kremlin lights, ventured (before the Nobel Prize fracas) to praise Doctor Zhivago. Said Ilya (The Thaw) Ehrenburg: "The description of those days is excellent. Pasternak and I belong to the same generation, so I can pass judgment on this." But the editors of the Moscow magazine Novy Mir, to whom Pasternak submitted the manuscript in 1956, stated the Communist case against the novel. Apart from Pasternak's sympathy...
...Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet won the Nobel Prize with this big novel that is both a hymn to life and an indictment of the Russian Revolution. Not considered Best Reading in his homeland (see BOOKS...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...