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...Bread Alone, Vladimir Dudintsev's harsh novel of genius frustrated by Red bureaucracy (TIME, Oct. 21), later condemned the book but could not prevent publication in the West. Now another furor is brewing over the appearance in Italy of a novel by distinguished Russian Poet-Translator Boris Pasternak. Reason why the Italian publication is "unauthorized"' by Moscow is evident from lines such as these: "Marxism is not sufficiently master of itself to be a science ... I know no current of thought that is more isolated and farther from the facts than Marxism...
...picture is based on Playwright Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play, The Women. The play was made into a picture in 1939, and audiences of that time enjoyed the satirical thrusts and hair-pulling matches. In this version, however, Producer Joe Pasternak has sugared everything up with pretty Metrocolor, with June Allyson, who plays the spirited heroine as a teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never...
...years after Fadeyev joined the presidium of the Union of Soviet Writers, Gorky died suddenly. Then people began asking questions. Where is Isaac (Red Cavalry) Babel? What has happened to Novelist Boris (Mother Earth) Pilniak? Why is the work of Poet Boris (Above the Barriers) Pasternak no longer published? About lesser writers there was no mystery: they had been arrested as "enemies of the people." While they disappeared, Fadeyev became No. 1 man in the Soviet Writers' Union. Disdaining elegant clothes, he habitually wore the party uniform, but he had his own chauffeur-driven car and a luxurious apartment...
...Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending a Communist-front cultural conference in Manhattan, he was startled to find himself questioned about Soviet writers. Said he: "They all exist; they are in this world. Pasternak is my neighbor . . . I don't know about Babel, and about Kirshon...
...Producer Joe Pasternak's wire-haired terrier died from "New Year's excitement...