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Even Nobel Prizes for Literature have produced political storms. When Boris Pasternak, author of Doctor Zhivago, was named in 1958, the official press labeled the decision "a hostile political act." The vilification became so intense that Pasternak declined the prize. He died in 1960, and his son claimed the medal on his behalf only last year...
...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
Aside from the physical problem of getting the memoirs out of the country, there was a moral consideration. It was no longer 1958, but it wasn't yet 1988 either. Only ten years before, Boris Pasternak had drawn thunder and lightning down upon himself by giving his manuscript to an Italian publisher...
...Manson (H), 2:08.18; 2. Ken Pasternak (H) 2:12.18; 3. Bill McCumber...
...HARVARD (Watson, Manson, Kidd, Wagner), 3:26.92; 2. HARVARD (Grant, Pasternak, Tull...