Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause for rejoicing but for sorrow. Because my writing appears in such an ugly, false and misshapen form, and I am ashamed to look people in the face. To write a good book in the Soviet Union, that is still the simplest thing to do. The real trouble begins only later, when you try to get it published. For the past ten years, I have been living in a state of constant, unavoidable and irresolvable contradiction. Finally, I have simply given...
...real life will not forgive a man who violates his conscience. Those writers have all become such cynics and spiritual cripples and their hidden regret for their wasted talent eats away at them to such an extent that their wretched existence cannot be called life but rather a caricature of life. It would probably be difficult to think up a worse punishment for oneself than to have to spend one's whole life trembling, cringing, trying fearfully to get the sense of the latest order and fearing to make the slightest mistake...
...whenever I wasn't there my flat could be broken into and searched and my manuscripts confiscated, as happened with Solzhenitsyn and many others. My writing desk, in fact, had no drawers at all. The Russian earth itself served as my desk and my safe. It became a real mania for me to be able to see my writing published in the form in which I had written it. I wanted to see it just once, and then they could do what they liked with me. Yes, in that sense I was a sick man, I was a maniac...
...Syrian Sukh017 fighter-bombers streaked across Israel's northern bor der and bombed an Israeli military post on Mount Hermon. Syrian artillery opened up against the town of Ku-neitra, key military headquarters in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel denied that either attack caused casualties. The real victim was the last mutually respected cease-fire line in the Middle East. Now, besides Egypt and Jordan, Is rael must deal with an active Arab enemy on a third front...
...explained that he was doing research for his speech this month at the bicentennial celebration of the Emperor's birth in Ajaccio, Corsica. The President was taking a long weekend with his wife and son at Pointe de 1'Ar-couest on the Brittany coast, his first real breather since assuming office. According to Paris Match, it was practically a second honeymoon: "Hand in hand, they run among the rocks, they go for cruises, and, like all vacationers, they return to their place, tired and smiling, their shoes in their hands...