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...reading about Alexander Solzhenitsyn's present confrontation, I am reminded of Pasternak's words: "In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it." A prophet has always been considered a fool by his own. Nevertheless a prophet has always been and will always be a spokesman for God or for his people. Would that we all had such fools in our midst...
...balloting conducted March 10 and 11, Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning novelist, placed first. But the subcommittee decided that it would take too long to contact him, and extended the invitation instead to Stone...
...results of the voting by the senior class March 10 and 11 showed Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to be first choice. However, Susan G. Cole '74, Radcliffe Senior Marshal, said that the Class Day Subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee decided that an invitation to the Russian novelist would be "infeasible...
Cole said that "tracking him down" would take too long and that the committee needed a firm commitment soon. Another reason Solzhenitsyn was not invited, she said, was that "if Harvard were to harness all its energy to get him to come, they wouldn't do it for Class...
...remarkable open letter, obviously written more in sorrow than in anger, may well be Solzhenitsyn's farewell message to the Politburo. It reveals Russia's greatest writer as an uncomfortable and uncompromising prophet, a utopian conservative who fears for the future of his beloved country as much as he hates what the Soviet system has done to its past. English-language publication rights have been given to Index, a London-based magazine devoted to one of Solzhenitsyn's favorite causes, the abolition of censorship. Excerpts...