Word: ivan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within Communism. The recent Soviet press campaign against Tito ("lover of counter-revolution") and his country is almost as bitter as the one against West Germany. At a meeting last summer on his resort isle of Bnoni in the Adriatic, Tito got into a shouting match with Soviet Ambassador Ivan Benediktov. "Lies! Lies!" cried Tito, as the Soviet diplomat read a note from Moscow giving the Soviet version of events in Czechoslovakia. "You cannot talk that way," the Russian remonstrated. "Don't interrupt me!" shouted Tito...
...extending their tourist visas, by seeking student or work permits, or simply by staying put, are postponing a final decision. They are referred to by their host countries in such vague terms as "tourists on extended vacation" and "travelers living in self-imposed semi-exile." Said Film Director Ivan Passer, visiting New York: "In Hungary, they didn't close the border until three months after the tanks came in. A month after that, thousands of people disappeared"-into prisons...
...above all others, fulfills this dangerous role in Soviet society today is Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's greatest living prose writer. The world knows him largely through a single work, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, his short, searing novel of life in Stalin's labor camps...
...resources of that difficult, plastic language. Ivan Denisovich's speech is essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing...
...four drafts, becoming leaner and simpler in each. The agony of One Day comes from the spectacle of a simple man, laboring and suffering with naive good humor, and all for nothing. For Russian readers this agony is redoubled. Russians have always loved innocents in literature, and the carpenter Ivan is a peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots...