Word: solzhenitsyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to write a new story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, a subject that is just now capturing the attention of the scientific mainstream...
...Ukraine as a separate country, not least because 20% of the population there is Russian. This is an emotional issue with roots both deep and broad, by no means confined to crazies like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who calls his party Liberal Democratic but who is actually a fascistic imperialist. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's new book, Rebuilding Russia, appeals to Ukrainians not to go their own way: "Brothers! We have no need of this cruel partition. The very idea comes from the darkening of minds brought on by the communist years...
...PROFESSORIAL SERVICES: Every academic wants to teach at Harvard for the same reason Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn agreed to give a Commencement speech here after turning down the rest of the Ivy League: "Because it's Harvard...
...SOVIET UNION never produced a decent stereo, and even if it survived another 1000 years, it never would have. Its cars sucked. It had awful food and not enough of it. Its architecture was hideous. Its books and movies were boring propaganda. Its great artists were either emigres (e.g. Solzhenitsyn) or escapologists (e.g. Kabakov). It polluted like sulphur dioxide was going out of style. Its rulers were, almost without exception, bloodthirsty swine. Its record on human rights was laughable, its concern for individual freedoms nonexistent. All this and much worse is true...
Marshall spoke in 1947, and Solzhenitsyn spoke in 1978. Are these the only two memorable characters? Hardly. As evidenced by the past 10 Commencement speakers, Harvard can still draw a celebrity...