Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spin. Since Pioneer III never approached the moon, not all its instruments came into play. The most novel one was an optical gadget designed to send a radio signal when it saw a bright object the size of the moon at a distance of 22,000 miles. The instrument was shielded from the sun, and it would have been activated by a timing device only after the receding earth looked smaller than the approaching moon...
...protested directly to Khrushchev. But to assess the book primarily in political terms would be making a major error about Doctor Zhivago and about Boris Pasternak. The bitter criticism of Marxism cannot be missed, and Pasternak obviously wrote exactly what he wanted to write. But he also says: "My novel was not intended to be a political pamphlet. I wanted to show life as it is, in all its wealth and intensity. In the West they always quote the same two or three pages of my work. Have they read the rest? I am not a propagandist. This...
Secretary Anders Oesterling of the Royal Swedish Academy paid tribute to Pasternak, the author of the anti-Communist novel "Doctor Zhivago" who was forced by Soviet pressure to turn down the literature prize...
Future fiction. "I'm working on a rather long novel. But it's a very long way away. Three years...
...Horse's Mouth. The wine of genius mixed with just plain sewage in an uneven but arresting version of Joyce Gary's memorable novel about a lovable monomaniac painter, with Alec Guinness as star and adapter...