Word: pasternaks
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...wonder the Republicans aren't trying to get Pasternak out of Russia and run him for President. He's a natural for them. He has a gift for platitudinous, humanistic twaddle designed for the female and fuzzy-male vote. As for his book, it's a conversation piece or gift for the culture snob...
...seems a fit time to point out the rather embarrassing fact that the U.S. has really no right to look askance at Russia for her abominable treatment of Pasternak when the American Government is guilty of keeping Ezra Pound under lock and key during twelve years, for political dissension...
Your cover painting showing Pasternak's loosened red tie, the thorny forest surrounding the gaunt, weathered face, the serene and snowy hair rising through the turbulence of the stormy sky portray a picture of symbolic beauty. The smallness of the figure in the corner confronting the immense forest, and the craggy jutting power of Pasternak's face convey the esteem that both Artist Chapin and America feel for the unyielding integrity of this lone man who has profoundly shaken the complacency of East and West...
...shocked at the cover. The greatest kindness to Pasternak would be not to print one further word about him. He wants to stay and die in Russia...
...throughout 1958 the U.S. was helped-inevitably to some, unexpectedly to others-by Communism's continuing demonstration, in the execution of Hungarian Patriots Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter, the persecution of Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak, the mass herding by Mao of millions of Chinese into communes, that Communism is by definition implacably and unchangingly sinister-hence vulnerable...