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...funeral quiet, but Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 53, whose novels (The Cancer Ward, The First Circle) have been banned in his homeland, made his first public appearance in several years to honor the man who had published his anti-Stalinist novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Solzhenitsyn did not speak, but his simple presence made Tvardovsky's funeral a testimony for cultural freedom. Earlier, Solzhenitsyn offered more outspoken testimony in the same cause. In a letter to Dr. Karl Gierow, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, he sarcastically offered his own apartment as a setting...
...back'd toad." Other Tudor chroniclers-variously declaring that he arranged the murder of his brother, poisoned his own wife, usurped the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London -have made Richard III Britain's very own Ivan the Terrible...
...illiteracy and underdevelopment that Freire attacks through his pedagogy is present in all nations; the illiteracy of the understanding of our fellow men and women and underdevelopment of our humanity and our capacity to love. A few social thinkers already have been profoundly influenced by Paolo Freire's ideas. Ivan Illich, another educator working in Latin America, speaks of Freire as "the great man of Latin America": Illich's call to dismantle out entire present educational structure may be the direction Freire himself would move in if he became involved in children's education rather than the adult education...
...oppression. The work group sits around a fire in a half constructed building and Tiurin, the group leader, relates the events leading to his imprisonment the was discharged from the army for being a kulak's son and arrested after jumping a train without travelling papers). Ivan's concurrent narration renders the story as poignant as a rehearsed documentary...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich is an important book about a significant historical event. The ineptitude and wrong-headedness with which the film was made is overwhelming. One could almost be titillated by the fine qualities which Ivan's suffering has evoked. As the day ends Ivan rushes to finish the wall he is working on. He leans back to see the sun setting over the ice-encrusted bricks. The camera rests on the image for several seconds. What is supposed to be beautiful here? The sunset reflected in the ice? Yes, they usually are, but Wrede continually forgets that...