Word: solzhenitsyn
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...another popular story centered on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature and one of many luminaries to visit Harvard...
...debriefing, they mentioned that he didn’t speak much English,” Barry Jones said. “He kept on remembering to watch [Solzhenitsyn’s] head, and forgot about his leg” while Solzhenitsyn was entering...
...closed the door on his leg, and Solzhenitsyn yelled ‘you son of a bitch,’” Kathy said with a chuckle. “So he did know some English phrases...
...occasionally taken political stands as well, co-authoring an open letter against the harassment of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1974 and, in 1978, testifying before members of Congress against government support for the arts...
Against this backdrop of growing irrelevance, Kofi Annan will speak at commencement. But a quarter century from now, contra Solzhenitsyn, it’s unlikely that anyone will be talking about what he said at Harvard in June 2004. We may instead be talking about how Annan’s organization was ultimately beached by the tides of its own corruption and institutional failure...