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...have forgotten how good food tastes!" exclaimed Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 after sipping a spoonful of tomato soup, the first food he has had in seven days. MacDonald ended his week-long fast protesting the jailing of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, the woman believed to have been the inspiration for Lara in Dr. Zhivago, just before midnight yesterday...
Convinced that "there has never been a case where you could have greater sympathy with the people." Donald C MacDonald, Jr '61, of Dudley House and Brighton, today begins a projected week long hunger strike to protest the imprisonment of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, long-time friend of the late Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak...
...August Olga Ivinskaya was arrested, and a fortnight later, so was Irina. Last week, harried by queries from the West, the Soviet government admitted that Olga had been convicted in a secret trial, and sentenced to eight years' "detention," Irina to three years. In the first confused embarrassment, one Moscow official charged that Olga's crime was that she bad sold poetry translations as her own which she had actually farmed out to hard-up university students. By week's end, Moscow propagandists had improved on this: they explained that Olga had really been cheating Pasternak...
...vindictiveness in the case. They note that Moscow has proposed bringing out a volume of Pasternak's posthumous poetry. Clearly, the first step in rehabilitating Pasternak as a "great Soviet writer" is to explain away Doctor Zhivago by claiming he had been misled by the evil genius of Olga Ivinskaya...
...come back. She must have been arrested in the street at that time. She vanished without a trace . . . forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the innumerable mixed or women's concentration camps in the north." Olga Ivinskaya last week was following the course of her fictional self to the bitter...