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...word "drunk," proclaimed the Moscow radio last week, opening a temperance campaign decreed by Nikita Khrushchev, is "incompatible with the notion of 'Soviet man.' " Another word that seemed to be incompatible with Soviet man was Nobel. For winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Pasternak edged further into the Communist doghouse. A third word bothering the Russians was stilyagi, which means a zoot-suiter who wears narrow trousers, likes rock 'n' roll and hates work. For a report on Russia's three bothersome little words, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...most remarkable Russian novel of the 20th century has been translated into 18 languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature† for his lyric poetry and for Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Sept. 15), the novel about Russia's terrible years that no Russian may read...
...Pasternak Declared Traitor...
MOSCOW, Oct. 31--The Moscow Soviet Writers Union advised the government yesterday to exile author Boris Pasternak as a traitor...
...Pasternak's work was recently denounced by Pravda and its author was advised to refuse the proffered award. There has been no official Soviet exhortation that the writer denounce the novel himself, as he was nearly pressured into doing in a letter to an Italian publisher several years ago, when the book was first set up to be printed...