Word: postscripted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in a postscript to his new novel, August 1914, which was published last week in Russian by the small YMCA Press in Paris. It is the only one of his books, aside from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, that Solzhenitsyn has agreed to have published in the West...
...some hope for the new novel; unlike the other books, it does not center on the crimes of Stalinism, which by implication embarrass Soviet leaders who came to prominence under the old tyrant. Nonetheless, Soviet censors raised many objections. They even insisted, as Solzhenitsyn points out in the postscript, that the word God be printed in lowercase but that KGB (the secret police) be printed in capitals...
...Leila Khaled, 24, the Palestinian guerrilla who attempted to skyjack an El Al airliner over Britain last month. Her mission failed and a male companion was killed, but three other planes were skyjacked by guerrillas that day and their crews and passengers taken hostage. Now, in a strange postscript to terror, the last of those hostages were being exchanged for Leila and six other Palestinian guerrillas...
...Gretel 11 in the fifth and deciding America's Cup race last week than the spectator boat America, a replica of the schooner that first won the cup in 1851, hoisted the signal flags for Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum-which was to be proved). A more fitting postscript would have been V.Q.P., for vincit qui patitur-he that can endure overcometh. In defeating Gretel II by 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, Intrepid had endured the longest (14 days) and strongest challenge in decades...
...Bitter Postscript. Though the colonels were not participants in the murder, as Z suggests, they have nonetheless provided some intriguing postscripts to the trial that would be worthy of inclusion in the film. They reinstated and promoted the six police officers who had been sacked for their part in the murder and then retired them on pension...