Word: pasternaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mere Mockery. Under arrest was Andrei D. Sinyavsky, 40, a ranking literary critic for the "liberal" magazine Novy Mir. Though Sinyavsky is known in the West as a supporter of the late Boris Pasternak and has penned essays on Picasso and Robert Frost, his delicate style just did not seem to fit. Tertz writes with a heavy undercurrent of Jewish Weltschmerz, Sinyavsky with a gentle wit reflecting his Russian Orthodox background...
...sheer public-relations value inherent in "liberalization." Says one Washington Kremlin-watcher: "These men would like to handle this whole thing as quietly as possible. They don't want to be brutal and cause an outcry of protests abroad. They are not interested in big trials and another Pasternak incident...
...Academy awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature to Cossack Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, 60. In Moscow the Writers' Union called the award the "rehabilitation of the Nobel Prize." Western critics recalled what the prize was being "rehabilitated" from-the 1958 episode when the party bludgeoned the late Boris Pasternak into "voluntarily" refusing the prize. Sholokhov himself had got in some of the licks, denouncing the Swedes as "unobjective" and belittling the author of Doctor Zhivago as a "hermit crab." Now that the Academy had demonstrated its objectivity to his satisfaction, Sholokhov smiled and announced: "I gratefully accept the Nobel...
...result, the Unread Classic has become as much a part of vacation nostalgia as the unvisited museum or the unclaimed laundry. The catchall bookshelf in a rented summer cottage, once the hallowed repository of mildewed National Geographies and Mary Roberts Rinehart, now often runs to Pasternak and Proust, to Galbraith and Gideon's Trumpet. Even in the remotest fishing village, the drugstore often offers a conscience-pricking range of paperback titles. Inevitably, as he scoops up Louis Fischer's Life of Lenin, Camus' The Plague, George Orwell's Essays, and four Ian Flemings for insurance...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...