Word: mir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intensified Debate. Heads in the Kremlin also suffer pains whenever Moskva or Novy Mir, the leading journal in the liberal upsurge, comes out on the stands. The most recent issue of Novy Mir is running a memoir by Boris Pasternak, whose work has been suspect ever since he allowed his Doctor Zhivago to be published in the West (where it ultimately sold 4,500,000 copies). The sketch relates how Pasternak once wrote to Stalin with sarcastic thanks for sparing him the same official adulation accorded Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving...
While looking on such heresy with a certain amount of ambiguity, the Kremlin has decided to make an example of Novy Mir. Though its poet-editor, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 57, contends that "I am a Communist in all the complexity of my soul," the party removed him from the Central Committee, recently fired two of his editors and replaced them with three safer editors. Two weeks ago, it rebuked the magazine for "a lopsided showing of reality" and "ideological errors and drawbacks...
...Superman," Jean-Claude Killy, won everything in sight: the giant slalom, the slalom and the downhill, thereby clinching the 1967 World Cup. Behind him came Georges Mauduit, second in the giant slalom, and Guy Perillat, second in the downhill. In the women's events France's Isabelle Mir won the women's downhill, Christine Beranger the giant slalom, and Marielle Goitschel the slalom. Last week Bonnet took his forces on to Vail, Colo., for the American Internationals Team Race. The in evitable result: Killy repeated his triple triumph, and France won still another team championship...
...grave detail the positive qualities of Polish uprisings against the Russians 100 years ago-a theme with sledgehammer relevance in Poland today. The Eastern Europeans are also encouraged by the occasional sounds of independence they hear from Moscow, where Aleksandr Tvardovsky, the editor of the literary weekly Novy Mir, last week threw out a defiant challenge to the regime. "We will listen to criticism," he said, "only when it is worth the great traditions of Russian realism...
...Died. Mir Osman AH Khan Bahadur, 84, Nizam of Hyderabad, Eastern potentate and ruler of Hyderabad's 16 million, said to be the" world's richest man, with about $2 billion in gold, jewelry and art treasures, until Indian troops ended his rule in 1948, forcing him to accept a meager $900,000 yearly allowance, most of which he spent to support courtiers, bodyguards, concubines, servants and some 2,000 legitimate and illegitimate Nizam children, while he himself lived like a miser as a matter of personal choice, reputedly even darning his old socks; of influenza; in King...