Word: solzhenitsyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's honorary degree from Harvard [June 19] should have been a Doctor of Medicine rather than a Doctor of Letters. He has diagnosed America's illness and prescribed the proper treatment...
Perhaps the younger generation in the Soviet Union has not suffered enough to develop that intense spiritual development of which Solzhenitsyn speaks. Otherwise why are so many of them willing to risk arrest for their materialism by exchanging icons or other family heirlooms for blue jeans, pantyhose or albums of "intolerable music" by the Rolling Stones...
...market, is provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories set in an exotic political landscape. They deserve greater esteem. The Execution of Mayor Yin is in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival-and sometimes the defeat-of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity...
NONFICTION: A Considerable Town, M.F.K. Fisher ∙ A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld ∙ Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin ∙ Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair ∙ Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...