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...separation between style and content, but Nabokov uses his style to create a believable man, charming and pathetic. Having just fallen down a flight of stairs and flat on his back. Pnin remarks, "It is like the splendid story of Tolstoy--you must read it one day, Victor--about Ivan Ilyich Golovin who fell and got in consequence kidney of the cancer...
...translator whose own writing level sometimes seems just about up to television-script standards, Cancer Ward is not so fine a book as The First Circle. But it adds measurably to Solzhenitsyn's most remarkable creation: the many-sided, often autobiographical composite character who was first seen as Ivan Denisovich, then as Gleb Nerzhin (in The First Circle) and now as Kostoglotov...
...motorized, will remain behind. They are equipped with Scud and Frog tactical missiles that can fire either conventional or nuclear warheads. The Soviet command is setting up headquarters at Milovice, 25 miles northeast of Prague, where Russian technicians have already installed a troposcatter communications system that gives Soviet Commander Ivan Pavlovsky instant and unjammable contact with other Warsaw Pact headquarters...
...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...