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...bitterness of recent years, when he was reviled by his stony-faced government and forbidden under pain of exile to accept the Nobel Prize awarded him for his poems and for Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak once wrote: "How hard this life, and long my way of stone." Last week, the indomitable man who succeeded in creating some of modern literature's most eloquent testaments to the unconquerable human spirit came to the end of his stony path...
...Greek credo that "man is the measure of all things." This notion got him into trouble with the Greek Orthodox hierarchy as far back as 1939, when it publicly accused him of atheism. In 1954 the Vatican put Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ on the Index of forbidden books. In that novel, due for fall publication in the U.S., Judas emerges as a hero since he helps Christ to fulfill his mission of redeeming mankind. At the time of the Vatican edict, Kazantzakis fired off a telegram to the Committee of the Index containing a sentence from Tertullian...
Heap o' Lovin'. In Los Angeles, Frank Sherman, 320 Ibs., and his wife Bernice, 250 lbs.. were forbidden by superior court to adopt a child until they reduce...
Truth was that, apart from the organized knots of Reds, the crowds that turned out to see Khrushchev were mostly just curious-ancl often silent. And throughout the tour, Nikita was confronted by the weighty displeasure of France's Catholic hierarchy. Priests were forbidden to receive him in their churches. In Reims the Host was removed from the altar of the cathedral before Khrushchev was shown through-and a purification service was held after he had left. The church even succeeded in spiking one of the anticipated triumphs of the Agitprop men-Nikita's scheduled meeting with Canon...
...career: Bowman's younger brother, Gordon Gray, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary, former president of the University of North Carolina and now national security adviser to President Eisenhower.) At Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Bo Gray persuaded fellow students to smoke Prince Albert after he discovered that cigarettes were forbidden. After graduating from Chapel Hill ('29) he went to work as a Reynolds salesman...