Word: pasternaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After he came to TIME in 1950, he wrote book reviews and some memorable cover stories-among them Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak, Tennessee Williams. Always aisle-struck, Kalem first dreamed of being a drama critic when he was 16, was delighted when he finally fulfilled that ambition at TIME in 1961. Equally pleased, apparently, were his fellow first-nighters ("an unruly band of middle-agers"), who have twice elected him president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle...
Died. Zinaida Pasternak, 69, second wife of the late Boris Pasternak, who married the author in the early 1930s, and may or may not (no one will say) have had access to the rich Swiss bank account set up for Pasternak's heirs by the Italian publisher of Doctor Zhivago; of cancer; in Moscow...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie lead an exceptional cast through romance and revolution in Director David Lean's eye-filling facsimile of Pasternak's Russia...
...senses that Pasternak had something else in mind and screen writer Robert Bolt also. Presumably we are supposed to identify with Zhivago, whose individualism is being cramped by the system. But it's not easy to identify with a character who does nothing but write poems we never see. In fact, the only evidence for Zhivago's poems is that he looks at the moon a lot and seldom speaks; and while Sharif can look at the moon with the best of them, it's not enough to make a character...
...says Alec Guiness turning to the audience to deliver an aside not unlike one of George Burns's in the old Burns & Allen show, "Then it's a gift!" Some laugh; some cry; others are already on their feet, dancing in the aisles. Boris Pasternak never had it so good...