Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only One Regret...
...Artist's Fable. Without ever repudiating Doctor Zhivago-which, he repeated, had been published abroad without his authority-Pasternak expressed only regrets at the way in which some had interpreted it. "After the end of the week, when I saw the scope of the political campaign around my novel, I realized myself that this award was a political measure." His Soviet editors, wrote Pasternak, "warned me that the novel might be understood as a work directed against the October Revolution and the founders of the Soviet system. I did not realize this, and I now regret...
...mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important ambitious costly above all sincerely patriotic film" -a sentiment which, Einfeld pointedly went on to say, took no regard of "extensive advertising campaign in Mirror including two full three-quarter pages over and above regular space." McCabe did not answer the cable...
...dastardly capitalist insult, and they promptly went into one of their vitriolic temper tantrums. The Moscow Literary Gazette sputtered that the award was made "for an artistically squalid, malicious work replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent the Nobel committee a six-word cable in English: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed...
...regret that, in an otherwise fine job of reporting the Student Council Forum on NSA, your reporter attributed to me a statement which I did not make...