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SINCE 1901, when the Swedish Academy chose the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and bypassed Leo Tolstoy, the awards have often been surrounded by controversy. There is still a furor over last year's pick, Soviet Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works (Cancer Ward; The First Circle) expose the authoritarianism of Soviet life. Fearing that he would not be allowed back into the U.S.S.R., he has not dared travel to Stockholm to accept the award; and the Swedish embassy, fearing an adverse reaction from its Soviet hosts, refuses to stage a public ceremony for him in Moscow...
...they were, until the testimony of the witness who will probably never see this imperfect but indelible tribute. Like Tolstoy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is, despite the anguished diary, wholly Russian, a man who "cannot contemplate living anywhere but in my native land." Still, Solzhenitsyn has earned a scathing tribute from one pro-Soviet apologist and enemy: "He has already defected with his soul...
...TOLSTOY found in Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata a novel of homicidal sexuality: others find in it only the noblest aspirations of their own souls. In these higher voltages of the spirit one is creating at levels both above and below the consciously worded thought or the consciously planned act. The totality of him goes forth and exerts itself on the totality of other personalities. They will respond at that level to which they are attuned. Perhaps this is what we mean when we say that we are not influenced by what a man says, or even by what he does...
...Russia, a huge chemical plant was built right beside a beloved tourist attraction: Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy's gracious country estate. Unmonitored fumes are poisoning Tolstoy's forests of oak and pine, and powerless conservationists can only wince. With equal indifference, the Soviet pulp and paper industry has settled on the shores of Lake Baikal. No matter how fully the effluents are treated, they still defile the world's purest waters...
Died. Count Ilia A. Tolstoy, 67, grandson of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1924 and became noted in his own right as an explorer, conservationist and ichthyologist; in Manhattan. As an OSS agent in World War II, Tolstoy led an expedition from India into Tibet to enlist the Dalai Lama's aid in preparing a last Allied redoubt in Asia, to be used if the Nazis and Japanese managed to link forces in India. As a scientist, he developed a hypodermic harpoon for live capture of huge sharks and contributed widely to the conservation...