Word: solzhenitsyns
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...been far more sensitively translated to TV by Creator Paul Sills in a syndicated commercial series. CRITIC-AT-LARGE is a quarter-hour with Berkeley Associate Professor of Journalism David Littlejohn, 34, putting his bite, or perhaps overbite, on subjects ranging from Stravinsky to TV Guide, Disneyland to Solzhenitsyn. Like so much of public TV, Critic-at-Large is just a video version of a show just as well left to radio...
...This Solzhenitsyn, this once-in-ten-generations genius, who has suffered so much at the hands of his own government for the offense of producing masterpieces, has now suffered another humiliation, this time by the Swedish government, whose sniveling excuse is the protection of Swedish-Soviet relations...
...expect that the Swedish government's shabby treatment of a great literary figure will go unprotested by its own citizens: there is no Solzhenitsyn in Sweden. VANYA AVELINO Manila...
...police. In front of it stands the giant statue of the first Soviet secret policeman, Feliks E. Dzerzhinsky, who ran the police until his death in 1926. In the same building is dank Lubyanka prison, where political prisoners undergo their initial conditioning; in his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote how its warders clicked their tongues to warn each other whenever they were escorting a prisoner: "One prisoner must never be allowed to encounter another, never be allowed to draw comfort or support from the look in his eyes...
...Soviets, moreover, are inclined to accord greater respect to information that has been acquired deviously?even if it is as accessible as a Sears, Roebuck catalogue. In The First Circle, Novelist Solzhenitsyn scathingly described a prison research institute run by Soviet intelligence where American magazines that were sold to anyone in the U.S. "were here numbered, bound with string, classified and sealed up in fireproof safes, out of reach of American spies." The result, for the CIA as well as the KGB, is an astonishing amount of make-work and the accumulation of vast amounts of material that simply cannot...