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Last November the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir caused quite a stir by publishing One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch the first novel of an obscure mathematics teacher and former Red Army officer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Released with the express permission of Premier Khrushchev, One Day is a powerful, often humorous account of life in Stalin's forced labor camps. Translator Max Hayward, among others, hailed the novel as a "literary masterpiece" when it was published in the West several months later...
...mentioned Eliot.* He proudly recalls the day he put in their places a couple of young squirts who thought they were In because they could recognize Hemingway in the streets. They thought a little man who followed Hemingway carrying a bag was his butler. "No, that's Miró," Morley said quietly. "Miró! The Spanish painter," they squeaked, and slunk away abashed...
Nevertheless, the two largest groups of student terrorists are the Communists and the Fidelista MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Though indistinguishable from the Communists in action, according to Gonzalez, the MIR derives much of its strength from those, especially from rural areas, who do not want to incur the stigma attaching to Communism--"I wouldn't want my mother to hear I was a Communist...
Soviet Novelist Victor Nekrasov, 51, toured the U.S. in November 1960. and from his glowing words in the past two issues of Moscow's literary magazine Novy Mir, he must have enjoyed himself. "Honest to God, beautiful," he declared of the view of sleek skyscraper apartments along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. There were slums and poverty in Manhattan, he reported, but what seemed to strike him was the 21-in. TV sets in every hotel room, and museums crammed with "abundant and varied" treasures...
Saved by Nuns. Anunlikely agent of catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...