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...Paris, members of the New Philosophers movement were powerfully impressed by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's voluminous account, published in the mid-1970s, of the appalling Soviet Gulag camps for political prisoners. The period brought the spectacle of Communist Leader Pol Pot's genocide of perhaps 3 million Cambodians. Writer Bernard-Henri Levy blamed Marxism for Communist atrocities, and the charge resonated among French thinkers. Although their disillusionment was intellectual, it helped set the stage for Europe's economic shift half a decade later...
...bright, straightforward youth, with a special talent for languages, mathematics and the piano, who would be an interesting lad even if his dad did not happen to be Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In Palm Beach, Fla., last week, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, 13, played in his most formal concert yet, performing Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with the Soviet Emigre Orchestra. Only 18 months old when his father was exiled, the boy has thrived at his family's isolated home in Cavendish, Vt., where he began playing at age six and still practices between schoolwork for three hours a day. How does...
...years fighting and trying to remain alive." Now he is trying to make up those silent years. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, he turns out several columns a week for Latin newspapers, including the Spanish-language section of the Miami Herald. Unlike many other exiles -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn is his example -- he does not brood over the past or look wistfully toward the place of his birth. "I do not admire people who suffer professionally. I want to be a new man. I am eager to be alive. My duty is to write...
...made a deal to buy seven television stations in the U.S., announced in May that he would become a U.S. citizen. The roster of Soviet immigrants includes not only the black-garbed babushkas huddled over their knitting in Brooklyn's Little Odessa but such artists as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
...good address should be reflective, invitational to thought," says Riesman. He considers Solzhenitsyn's speech an abuse of Harvard's influence and institutional neutrality...