Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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End of the Procession
Sir: Re your translation of Solzhenitsyn's The Easter Procession [March 21]: I have read the piece in the original Russian and you have omitted the final three paragraphs. Omission of these lines for whatever reason deprives the reader of the point of the article and makes Solzhenitsyn appear...
Nor will those who passed by the bier or watched the funeral procession on television. The arrangements had been meticulously laid down in 1966, then approved by Ike. The 54-page scenario for the funeral read like a battle plan, covering every detail from the pace of the funeral march...
Close together, hastily, they pass, and after them-after them there's no one! That's the end of the procession! There are no worshipers, no pilgrims following the priests because, should they leave the church, they could not get in again.
In addition to this novel, another new work, The Easter Procession, has just reached the West. It is a contemporary vignette reported as only a great novelist can. In it, Solzhenitsyn sketches brilliantly the clash of generations and cultures in Soviet Russia (see box).