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...riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours," wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. "But the small problems of practical life-things like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara...
...that too required government ap proval. Since her small apartment on Moscow's Potapov Street had been turned over to strangers, she was even dependent on the state for new quarters. But the small problems of practical life were no more for Olga than they had been for Lara. She spent her first day in Moscow at Pasternak's grave...
...desperately suppressed? Not because it contained a political attack on the Soviet regime--that could have been answered. Dr. Zhivago was truly a subversive because he rejected root and branch the whole concept of the revolution. He rejected it by ignoring it, by transcending it through his love for Lara. "You and I," Zhivago tells Lara, "are like Adam and Eve, the first two people who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with--and now at the end of it we are just as naked and homeless...
John A. Erickson '62 and John Higginson '62 were fined $20 each in court costs Tuesday in East Cambridge District Court, where they were arraigned for failing to obey a policeman. The seniors were apprehended skating on the Charles River between Lara Anderson and Eliot Bridges march...
...Zenith-International) is what happens when the French take another whack at Fanny. Like that famously funny film first made by Marcel Pagnol, The Green Mare is a comedy of barnyard humors adapted from a ribald but rusé ironic novel by Marcel Aymé. Regrettably, Director Claude Autant-Lara lacks both Pagnol's touch and Aymé's intensity. The Green Mare ain't what she used to be. Nevertheless she is, as the French say, green-which means, as the Americans say, blue. The plot, for example, involves a Rabelaisian family feud in which...