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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While in prison he had undergone a rough-and-ready operation for cancer. The disease now became acute again. Near death, he made his way to a hospital in Tashkent, where the tumor was arrested. The experience gave rise to Cancer Ward, a weaker book than his others. Yet the book rises toward the end to Solzhenitsyn's most direct statement of the complicity of everyone in the guilt of the past: "It's shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE WRITER AS RUSSIA'S CONSCIENCE | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...allied command insisted that the Communists had mere ly paused to regroup and resupply. Last week Hanoi ended the argument as Communist forces came out fighting the length of the narrow country, mounting as many as 50 coordinated assaults in a single day. Even so, the Communist campaign was weaker than the Tet offensive or the second wave of at tacks in May and June. As a result, the allies were reluctant to identify the new push as the long-expected third Communist offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The Fighting Resumes | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...those people remembered, not exactly the play they had seen performed. Verse plays aren't noted for evoking mass gut reactions. The ambitious and verbally complex Mayer-Babe adaptation gets a little lost in the tempest nightly at Agassiz, and that's not to say that the play is weaker than its dazzling production. A Tim Mayer and (to a lesser extent) a Thom Babe show is like a great big present; there's so much of this one you'll just have to see it twice if you are willing to admit to the gluttony Mayer and Babe...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Everyman | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Thurmond further emasculated the weaker Dodd bill with six amendments, similar to those in the House, before the Judiciary Committee reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shot Down | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...they cannot and must not live together. When black and white come together in the color spectrum, a dull gray color is created. This gray is generally used to denote a scary, horrid gory situation. Have you ever washed black clothes with white clothes? The black dominates, and the weaker white fabric fades...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

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