Word: solzhenitsyns
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...since Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined the plan that was to raise Europe from the ashes has a commencement speaker stirred as much attention as has the exiled Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Both speeches were delivered in Harvard Yard, something of a symbol of the Western spirit of inquiry and humanism. The two speeches were separated by 31 years-but also by an immeasurable philosophical abyss. Marshall in 1947 was calling on the U.S., the world's supreme democracy, to turn its resources and energies to the rescue of an exhausted, endangered continent. Solzhenitsyn...
...after Carter's speech at Annapolis, exiled Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered his first major speech in three years. It was an extraordinary jeremiad, and its main target was not the Soviet system, whose evils he has vividly chronicled, but the West, where he has made his new home. At Harvard University's commencement, the 59-year-old Nobel laureate received a standing ovation as he was made an honorary Doctor of Letters. Then, like an Old Testament prophet, he denounced in an hourlong address such evils of modern American society as civic cowardice, immoral legalism, a licentious...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld A Savage War of Peace, Alistair Home Other People's Letters, Mina Curtiss Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair Scribble, Scribble, Nora Ephron The Gulag ArchipelagoIII, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Nora Ephron The Gulag Archipelago III, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, exiled Soviet novelist--Doctor of Letters...