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Publication of this novel was held up for two years in the Soviet Union because of its "ideological deviations." Reportedly, it took Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism...
...Kennedys deserted Washington and flew out by helicopter for their first visit to Glen Ora, their rented estate in Middleburg. Va. The press was told that there would be no news, no tours of the house, precious few beds in the nearby Red Fox Tavern for stubborn reporters. There were no weekend visitors. One morning Jackie went riding on her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, over bridle paths that had been specially cleared of snow. For the Kennedys, Glen Ora visits will be one more front in the fight for privacy and informality...
Lara was "the purest thing in the world," and "nothing equaled her in spiritual beauty." She was like Russia itself: "martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." In these words, Boris Pasternak described the beautiful heroine of his great novel, Doctor Zhivago, known to readers the world over-except in Russia, where Zhivago is banned...
...more democracy and free discussion. The party Central Committee stripped Djilas of his party rank and parliamentary presidency, and Tito himself rose to testify against his old friend. In 1956, after Djilas announced publicly that "the revolution in Hungary means the beginning of the end of Communism generally," the stubborn rebel was arrested and sentenced to three years in jail...
Rocky Road. The road toward federation has been long and rocky. As early as the 1920s Winston Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, suggested federation of East Africa. But fearing domination by Kenya's white settlers (whose stubborn opposition to the winds of change was later to provoke the Mau Mau), black nationalists said no. Their opposition deepened when Britain federated the neighboring Rhodesias and Nyasaland in 1953 in a forced union which the blacks said served only the interests of Southern Rhodesia's white settlers. Last year Nyerere became the first East African to espouse publicly the inescapable logic...