Word: pasternak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boris Pasternak for Doctor Zhivago-also, for his honesty and integrity, for his fearlessness and self-sacrifice. M. KOFFLER Brooklyn...
...accepted the award of the Nobel Prize as a literary distinction. I rejoiced . . . But I was wrong." White-haired Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak wrote these abject words in Pravda last week, and the Soviet news agency Tass triumphantly fired them round the world as Pasternak's "confession" that the Swedish prize committee's award to him last month had been "political...
...mean little gain for Soviet propaganda, and a larger defeat for human dignity. Yet if Pasternak's letter was a retreat, it was not a complete capitulation. A Russian patriot, he had plainly not enjoyed being trapped in the no man's land of the East-West cold war. No political figure, asking only of politics that it not destroy all that he holds more dear, Boris Pasternak, during the blackest years of Stalin's tyranny, had aloofly "listened to the world through his soul...
Died. Dame Rose Macaulay, 77, British novelist (Potterism, The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond), essayist, satirist; of a heart attack soon after signing a telegram from British writers to the Union of Soviet Writers protesting the expulsion of Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; in London. Spinster daughter of a Cambridge don and distant kin to Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dame Rose was raised in Italy, where her mother had been sent for her health. The sunny freedom of a girlhood on the Ligurian coast prepared her for anything but the spiny conventionalities of the traditional education...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...