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Life was full of grotesque jokes straight out of Gogol. The author tells of the commissar who had to put a stop to patriotic letters denouncing offenders against the regime because his office could not handle the flow. She notes Stalin's surprise phone call to Boris Pasternak to ask the author of the yet unwritten Dr. Zhivago just how good a poet Mandelstam was. Pasternak cautiously digressed and then suggested that he and Stalin meet for a chat. "About what?" asked the voice from the Kremlin. "About life and death," replied Pasternak. Stalin hung...
Evidently fearing that Solzhenitsyn will be prevented from journeying to Stockholm on Dec. 10 to accept his Nobel Prize, Rostropovich ridiculed the Kremlin's wildly fluctuating attitudes toward the award. He noted that when it was given to Boris Pasternak in 1958, and to Solzhenitsyn this year, it was regarded as "a dirty political game." But when Stalinist Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov was honored in 1965, it was seen as "a just recognition of the world significance of our literature." About Solzhenitsyn's banned novels, Rostropovich said: "He has suffered for the right to write the truth...
Goalie Ken Pasternak has kept the Elis in contention in many games this fall. Pasternak has three shutouts and a 1.5 goal average. Yale has lost four games...
...When Pasternak looks back over the past season he doesn't think of his personal performance but of thecohesiveness of the team. "If I had to pick the highlight of the season, it's that we've been a real team all year despite our record," he said. "This group is close, very close, and everyone out on the field is trying to help the other guy gain experience. I'm sure now that we'll win if we put it all together...
...Pasternak is optimistic about the team's future. "The coach laid it on the line at the beginning of the season that it would be a tough year. But we forced Penn into overtime this fall. I'm really looking forward to next year...