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Solzhenitsyn is a controversial world figure, sadly, inevitably praised and blamed for reasons that have more to do with politics than literature. Cancer Ward, The First Circle, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ring with a high purpose that goes far beyond the exposure of Stalinist terror. Though August 1914 departs for the first time from the author's own immediate personal experience, it continues the work begun in earlier books. Solzhenitsyn is attempting nothing less than to restore to the Russian people a whole segment of personal experience never truthfully written about or discussed, as well...
They do not stir an American reader as they do Solzhenitsyn. The war seems distant. The rhetoric of patriotism is just now justifiably in ill repute. The dramatic scenes are not so dense, driving and personal as they were in Cancer Ward and The First Circle. But the message carries. Solzhenitsyn could be writing of himself when he describes Staff Colonel Verotyntsev's showdown with the generals: "He brought with him, too, that passionate sense of conviction which inspires belief less by its veracity than by its origin in personal suffering...
Mike Balzano, Taras Szmagala, Libby Allemang, Mike Sotirhos, S.J. Skubik and Baiba Funke. The names read like a roster of Democratic precinct captains in Chicago's 42nd ward. Wrong place, wrong party. They are actually staff members of the National Republican Heritage Groups Council -certified Republicans all and proud of it in this election year. They have found a friend in Richard Nixon, and he has found congenial qualities in them: a conservative style of patriotism, the Protestant ethic (though they are mostly Roman Catholic), antiradicalism and nonpermissiveness. They are the so-called ethnics, whom the Republicans are sparing...
...since their introduction last year-nearly all of them to schools, hospitals, businesses and other institutions. Last month Ford Motor Co. bought 4,000 for use in its dealer-education program. Since June Cartrivision has been offered for sale in some Sears, Macy's and Montgomery Ward stores, but only a few hundred at most have been sold. Cartrivision's makers hope to have a $700 model available next May that can be attached to an ordinary television...
...Cronkite imbroglio had scarcely subsided when the gaffe and goof baton went to John Chancellor. Observing the Youth for Nixon claque, he commented sourly, "At Democratic Conventions we've seen Mayor Daley of Chicago pack the halls with members of the Sixth Ward sewer workers. What we've seen tonight seems to be the Republican equivalent." The G.O.P. delegates did not fancy themselves as stand-ins for Art Carney, and NBC's switchboard was flooded with complaints. Chancellor later harrumphed an apology, and the next day a huge poster was displayed on the floor: ENTHUSIASTIC SEWER WORKERS...