Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these are not our shock troops of the '30s-those who, yelling like demons, tore the Easter cakes from the believers' hands-oh no! These are moved by intellectual curiosity, as you might say. There is no more ice hockey on TV, and the football season hasn't yet begun-they're bored, that's why they crowd around the candlestand to buy candles, pushing Christians aside like sacks of straw and swearing at what they call "church businessmen...
...bell strikes loudly overhead-but there is something artificial about it: the strokes are tinny, somehow, not full-voiced and deep. The chimes announce the Easter procession...
...once again, the chief role goes, not to the believers, but to these same roaring youths. In twos and threes they burst into the yard, hurrying, yet not knowing where to look, which side to make for, where the procession will come from. They light their crimson Easter candles, and with the candles-with those candles they light their cigarettes, that's what they do with them...
...begins the Easter procession. Something reaches out to the young jungle beasts on either side and they grow a little quieter...
...addition to this novel, another new work, The Easter Procession, has just reached the West. It is a contemporary vignette reported as only a great novelist can. In it, Solzhenitsyn sketches brilliantly the clash of generations and cultures in Soviet Russia...