Word: leonidovich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pasternak, after a denunciation of Russian repression: "All this is more than flesh and blood can stand, dear doctor, dear Boris Leonidovich. All this is more than I can bear to see, people of the whole world, and this is why I am here, and not there, in Russia. How much longer, doctor, will it go on, how much longer...
...bitterness of recent years, when he was reviled by his stony-faced government and forbidden under pain of exile to accept the Nobel Prize awarded him for his poems and for Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak once wrote: "How hard this life, and long my way of stone." Last week, the indomitable man who succeeded in creating some of modern literature's most eloquent testaments to the unconquerable human spirit came to the end of his stony path...
...falling out with his contemporaries or other disapproval, so long as he is convinced that his word is right, so long as he is convinced that his cause is sacred!" In ringing tones, whose echoes would surely resound in Nikita Khrushchev's office, Chukovsky concluded: "Farewell, dear Boris Leonidovich, thank you from all of us. We owe you a large and unpaid debt." So did the world, for the sum total of Pasternak's writing is a cry of joy at the wonder of life and of God who created it, and a deep conviction...
Died. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 70, Russian poet-novelist, an apolitical Christian humanist whose 1958 Nobel Prize made him an unwitting cold war cause célèbre; of cancer: in Peredelkino, Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS...
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