Word: solzhenitsyns
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...provoked public discussion by American officials about the "selling-out of the Captive Nations" and an outcry of a large segment of the American press against the European security agreement, and it also provided politicans of all stripes with a ready-made issue, when President Ford refused to receive Solzhenitsyn, but the conference just didn't seem to be of much interest to anybody in Eastern Europe. The newspapers gave it plenty of play--the text of the agreement was even printed in full--but nobody I spoke with seemed to attach any real significance to it, either positive...
...latest samplings show that approval of Ford's military response to the Mayaguez hijacking has worn off like a weak injection, and has even produced second thoughts about its wisdom. The visit of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his passionate warnings against cooperating with the Soviets have hurt the President some on the other flank. "Where are we going?" the people asked. Too many vetoes, said some. No focus for the future. A few were uneasy over Ford's old-fashioned talk-too naive, too much like a Boy Scout. His friendship with business and the military establishment has brought...
...fact that language is an instrument of power - whatever the current doubts about its effectiveness - should make Americans more attentive to it, not less. To a great extent, a people's language is its civilization, the collective storage system of a tribe. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who knows something of the totalitarian uses of language, has said that he studies the words in his Russian dictionary "as if they were precious stones, each so precious that I would not exchange one for another." Another Russian exile, Vladimir Nabokov, has the same curator's love of words...
...hallowed ground and converse with remnants of a country that was no longer a nation. The place was a reconciliation of opposites. Mount Ararat, where Noah had brought his ark to rest, hid the radar stations of NATO. The literate Armenians liked "Jerome Salinger" and refused to talk of Solzhenitsyn. They were grateful for a land free of the old oppressions; yet some had seen their sons taken away by the Russian secret police. These Armenians, too, were running from yesterday. On a summer night one told his guest, "It's too nice an evening for history." But there...
...romantic declaration, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." From time to time the acknowledged legislators agree; for one brief, shining moment, Robert Frost even shared the inaugural platform with John F. Kennedy. That, however, was a greater victory for p.r. than for poetry. The recent snubbing of Solzhenitsyn by the White House suggests that things have returned to the Platonic state. Which is where they should be, according to Robert Penn Warren's Democracy and Poetry; when poets begin pleasing the powerful, citizens had best look for the nearest exit...