Word: ivans
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...NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars...
Probably the most startling book to come out of Russia in recent years was Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In massively compelling detail, it described the blighted existence of a prisoner in one of Stalin's detention camps at a time when the Soviet government had barely got around to admitting their existence. But Solzhenitsyn had spent eight years in just such a camp. And a question arose-was it impressive merely because it was autobiographically true? Now Solzhenitsyn's second book-a pair of short novels-has appeared. Even...
...comparison is to the law of the high seas-as a pair of massive new books on space law make clear. In both Space Law and Government, by Andrew G. Haley (Appleton-Century-Crofts, $15), and Law and Public Order in Space, by Myres S. McDougal, Harold Lasswell and Ivan A. Vlasic (Yale, $15), maritime law, which has grown out of the common consent and reciprocal needs of seafaring nations, is described as one of the most effective, enforceable varieties of international law. With its emphasis on trade and fisheries, maritime law offers convenient models for legal control of whatever...
...HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. stars in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, from the recent novel about life in a Russian concentration camp...
...runs. The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger rolled an extra 50,000 Sunday copies and sold 20,000. Hearst's evening Manhattan paper, the Journal-American, claimed a gain of 75,000 daily. The New York Times got a 25,000 boost both daily and Sunday. But Vice President Ivan Veit said that the Times's serialization of the Eisenhower memoirs probably accounted for most of that. New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer reported a modest circulation rise, but decided not to give a figure. Said he of the refugees from the Mirror: "My guess is that...