Word: pasternaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming out into the light for the first time since he disgraced himself by winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Russia's Novelist Boris Pasternak listened to a performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier in the day, Conductor Leonard Bernstein had led the players in passages from Aaron Copland's suite, Billy the Kid, and Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, finding in the two compositions an off-the-cuff evidence that Russian and U.S. cultures share a similar sense of humor and a "touching naivete" and frankness, "although our political differences do not always...
Thin Excuse. In Vienna, asked why his Communist nation had not yet published Russian Novelist Boris Pasternak's heretical Doctor Zhivago, a visiting Bulgarian writer solemnly explained:"It's too thick...
FICTION 1. Exodus, Uris (2) 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (4) 3. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence ( 1 ) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (7) 6. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (5) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 8. California Street, Busch 9. The Cave, Warren 10. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Gallico (9) NONFICTION 1. For 2? Plain, Golden (1) 2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (4) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (4) 6. Advise and Consent, Drury...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...