Word: feltrinelli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These good tidings were somewhat marred by word from Milan that Publisher Gian-giacomo Feltrinelli had forbidden the publication of Doctor Zhivago in Czechoslovakia on the grounds that he did not want the book, which has always been proscribed in Russia, to be used "as an instrument of anti-Soviet policy." Feltrinelli, who holds the copyright on the novel, has made a fortune selling Doctor Zhivago's book and movie rights around the world...
...segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction, and Dr. Albert Sabin, 57, who developed the oral polio vaccine, both recipients of $40,000 Antonio Feltrinelli awards presented by the Lincei National Academy, Italy's leading arts and sciences institute...
...alienation." Lush as a tropical jungle, the book alternates between fierce introspection and a hallucinatory evocation of the Mexican scene. When it was published in 1947, it received rave notices from serious critics but also made the lower rungs of bestsellerdom. Recently, it was brought out in Italy by Feltrinelli, the first publisher of Doctor Zhivago...
...contemplated writing for a quarter-century-to a publisher's reader, who pronounced it unpublishable. Five days after this news, in July 1957, the cancer-ridden, 61-year-old prince died. Months later, the manuscript in the desk drawer was unearthed and sent to Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago's original publisher, who recognized its power. The Leopard promptly outsold the bestselling Zhivago, and European critics all over Europe hailed The Leopard as the finest novel to come out of postwar Italy. It may be just that...