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...freshman year at Horace Mann, Ken Pasternak asked the school basketball coach what he could do in the fall to prepare for the winter season. Pasternak's coach recommended playing soccer since he felt soccer could help the freshman develop his speed and agility...
Penn out shot Yale 37-10, but Eli goalie Ken Pasternak sent the game into overtime with 19 saves to his credit. The Quakers ended the match in only 45 seconds of the first overtime on a head-shot by Bob Watkins...
Yale won-its first Ivy game of the year against Dartmouth, 3-0, John Clarke scored twice in the second half and goalie Ken Pasternak preserved the shutout that lifted the Bulldogs out of the league cellar...
...countries cherish the good opinion of mankind. Russia is no exception. That is why the recent award of the Nobel Prize to Alexander Solzhenitsyn is as great a public embarrassment as Soviet leaders have felt since the awarding of the prize to Boris Pasternak in 1958. More tellingly than Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn bears witness to human degradation in the Soviet Union of the Stalin era. The world premiere of A Play by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater reveals the novelist to be a dramatist of feral power...
...restrain the power of either czar or commissar, the writer has emerged as the last authoritative voice of conscience. Tolstoy protected peasants against religious persecution, and Pushkin nurtured democratic ideals that inspired the 1825 Decembrist uprising. Gorky sought to restrain the more brutal urges of the Bolsheviks, and Pasternak remained a symbol of moral values. Solzhenitsyn is aware of the power-and perils-of the writer's role. "For a country to have a great writer is like having another government," says one of the prisoners in The First Circle. "That is why no regime has ever loved great...