Word: pasternaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This, of course, is not the first book to explore the camps or dig into the new subcellars that were constructed under the Lower Depths. It occupies a place on the same shelf as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Lydia Chukovskaya's The Deserted House, another homefront view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely...
...whose work strays far from the official art form known as "socialist realism." For those who may ever have doubted it, Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva recently gave assurances that the party is not about to reverse its literary policy and publish books that contain "unjust generalizations," such as Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Last week the regime amnestied tens of thousands of petty criminals, but it did not free Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who are serving long sentences in hard-labor colonies for publishing abroad works critical of the government...
...safe from the rock jockeys any more. Now that the BBC has gone mod with a new pop station called Radio One, Britain is jumping to U.S.-style disk jockeys. The most popular is lion-maned Emperor Rosko, 24, who is better known in Hollywood as Producer Joe Pasternak's son Michael. Rosko sports a marmalade-colored fur coat and travels in a Rolls-Royce with his bodyguard, tapes his show and sends it to Radio One from Paris, where, speaking passably good French, he is also the country's No. 1 disk jockey. The Emperor, who likes...
...Whiskers. The book covers only four days in the '20s and '30s, and tells of a limited group of Soviet citizens-a handful of writers and professionals in the arts. But it raises sharper and more painful questions about Communism than does Pasternak's lugubrious historical panorama in Doctor Zhivago. Bulgakov's theme is political power as an adversary of human goodness. He uses a diabolic apparition that descends on Moscow to expose the corruption of those who play their assigned roles in Communist society...
...PASTERNAK HIGHWAY, a love story set in contemporary Russia, by Alex Parnis, will be at the Playhouse, Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 21 through...