Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word "drunk," proclaimed the Moscow radio last week, opening a temperance campaign decreed by Nikita Khrushchev, is "incompatible with the notion of 'Soviet man.' " Another word that seemed to be incompatible with Soviet man was Nobel. For winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Pasternak edged further into the Communist doghouse. A third word bothering the Russians was stilyagi, which means a zoot-suiter who wears narrow trousers, likes rock 'n' roll and hates work. For a report on Russia's three bothersome little words, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...most remarkable Russian novel of the 20th century has been translated into 18 languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature† for his lyric poetry and for Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Sept. 15), the novel about Russia's terrible years that no Russian may read...
...artistically squalid, malicious work replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent the Nobel committee a six-word cable in English: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed...
...union said the 68-year-old Nobel Prize-winning novelist is no longer fit to live in Russia...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--The 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded Thursday to three American scientists for their work on problems of heredity. The work could have strong bearing on the future of cancer research...