Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon was trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five men in Foggy Bottom: Rusk and Benjamin Reed, Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler telephones and even couriers were used in preference to cables...
...presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow smith that lends a slight feeling of familiarity to some of Cancer Ward's harrowing episodes. It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects it until TOO LATE because...
...CANCER WARD by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Translated by Rebecca Frank. 616 pages. Dial...
Barely a month after the launching of The First Circle (TIME cover, Sept. 27), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward has been published in an English translation. As a special kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...
Flashbacks. It isn't easy. For one thing, some of the labels are at least partly true. Cancer makes for strange ward-fellows. The inmates of Solzhenitsyn's ward include men and women from the farthest reaches of the Soviet Union -peasants, ex-prisoners, exiles, bureaucrats, students. When confronted with death, they express jagged-and politically damning-insights into the everyday enormities of life as it had been under Joseph Stalin. Perhaps most shocking are the flashbacks of a powerful party functionary, now suffering from cancer of the throat, who recalls denouncing a friend to the secret police...