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...forgotten how good food tastes!" exclaimed Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 after sipping a spoonful of tomato soup, the first food he has had in seven days. MacDonald ended his week-long fast protesting the jailing of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, the woman believed to have been the inspiration for Lara in Dr. Zhivago, just before midnight yesterday...
...Lara was "the purest thing in the world," and "nothing equaled her in spiritual beauty." She was like Russia itself: "martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." In these words, Boris Pasternak described the beautiful heroine of his great novel, Doctor Zhivago, known to readers the world over-except in Russia, where Zhivago is banned...
Hanged Husband. What was not generally known was the fact that Pasternak had drawn Lara from a real-life model: Olga Ivinskaya, 55, a woman born to poetry and suffering. Pasternak first met her in postwar Moscow, where she was working as a translator for the State Publishing House. Olga had already experienced the full bitterness of Soviet life. Her first husband hanged himself to avoid arrest in the Stalin purges of 1938. Her second died fighting for Russia against the invading Nazis. Each had left her a child: Irina and Dmitry. Olga was a poet herself, and her acquaintanceship...
...conclusion of Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak wrote, "One day, Lara went out and did not come back. She must have been arrested in the street at that time. She vanished without a trace . . . forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the innumerable mixed or women's concentration camps in the north." Olga Ivinskaya last week was following the course of her fictional self to the bitter...
Center of activity is Pinar del Rio, Cuba's westernmost province, where prosperous tobacco growers stand to lose their land to Castro's agrarian reform. The fighting arm is headed by a former Batista army corporal named Luis Lara. Last month Castro's troops captured 20 of Lara's men, including two U.S. aircraft pilots. But Lara remains at large...