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...would have hoped that one could discuss the scientific or artistic accomplishments of a person without reference to his political views. One can admire Solzhenitsyn's or Bellow's novels without embracing the Slavonophilic views of the first or the pro-Israeli view of the second. Nor should Friedman's views on Rhodesia (mistaken in my opinion) stand in the way of recognizing his scientific contributions to economics. That the latter have been extensive and significant is not really disputable (cf. Samuelson's column in the current issue of Newsweek...
After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974 and a stopover in Switzerland, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has packed his bags once again. Believing himself to be in danger from Soviet agents in Zurich, the Nobel prizewinner has apparently decided to settle near Cavendish, Vt. Though the author has kept mum about the move, a friend of his has recently purchased a home with 50.7 acres of land for $150,000 and acquired a town permit authorizing $250,000 in renovations. Solzhenitsyn, who listed Cavendish as his next residence with the U.S. Immigration Service, seems to have made a thorough adjustment...
...only one irksome conflict remained. Although it was 11 o'clock, the platform had yet to be approved. Reagan's saddened troops were still determined to add a self-styled "morality" amendment that not very obliquely assailed the Administration's foreign policy. The code words included praise for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident Soviet writer whom Ford had refused to invite to the White House; criticism of pursuing détente?a word that Ford had banned ?without insisting on concurrent Soviet concessions; an attack on "secret agreements, hidden from our people"; and a reference to "Helsinki," where Ford had agreed...
What do Truman Capote, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Barbara Hutton have in common? Answer: things have been working out fine for them. Sort of. Writer Capote, now finishing his high-society novel Answered Prayers, didn't have a prayer in a Southampton, L.I., court last week, when he pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge. He was fined $165 and ordered to enroll in a state-run driver-rehabilitation program. Nobel Prizewinning Author Solzhenitsyn and Wife Natalya have learned Western ways too fast. She was at the wheel of their van when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over...
Wolfe is also convinced, as every right-wing commentator on the Left has been since about 1920, that some recent event has uttcrly discredited socialism. So he picks out the Solzhenitsyn and related cases as evidence that socialism itself, and not Stalinism, created the world's "bone heap... grisly beyond belief." He catalogues the Western literary community's boycott of Solzhenitsyn and seems to be aghast at the idea that lifelong leftists would not collapse like toy boats at the salvos of Solzhenitsyn, a Russian Orthodox dogmatic and rightist. What mindlessness. I guess Wolfe called the piece "The Intelligent...