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Bowled Over. Lara, in Pasternak's phrase, was "unequaled in spiritual beauty-martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." Besides, during the film she must range in age from 17 to 40. When Lean tested Julie Christie, 24, for Lara, he had seen her only in Billy Liar-in which by simply walking wordlessly down a street she made cinema history. Asked to fly to Madrid for a screen test, Julie figured, "They must be off their nuts," went mainly for the free holiday...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
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...