Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable Russian novel of the 20th century has been translated into 18 languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature† for his lyric poetry and for Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Sept. 15), the novel about Russia's terrible years that no Russian may read...
...Doctor Vitality. The cable might have been written by the fictional Doctor Zhivago himself, for it was touched with his vitality. Indeed, "vitality" is a loose translation for Zhivago, for Pasternak coined his hero's name from the Russian word for "alive." Love of life is at the heart of Pasternak's devastating indictment of the Communist regime. He believes that history is a shadow cast by man, not a bloodstained leash to drag him to future "social betterment." 'Says Doctor Zhivago: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life . . . Life is never a material...
...tragic drama of Doctor Zhivago is that of an apostle of life, with a profound sense of its Christian sanctity, who is caught in the life-crushing and soul-destroying nightmare of revolution, civil war and tyranny. The poet-doctor is driven across the face of Russia, is loved by people who lose him, and greatly loves a woman named Lara whom he loses. A broken man, he finally dies of a heart attack after he steps off a Moscow streetcar...
Princeton, long an important voice in the most advanced areas of educational thinking, has once again taken the lead in scholastic liberalism. The James Madison Assembly, an undergraduate debating group, has decided by an overwhelming vote of 26 to 9 that Brigitte Bardot should receive a degree of Doctor of Physical Education from that university...
...Soviet Government is almost certain to keep Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak from accepting his award, the English translator of Doctor Zhivago asserted yesterday...