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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent the Nobel committee a six-word cable in English: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed...
Doctor Vitality. The cable might have been written by the fictional Doctor Zhivago himself, for it was touched with his vitality. Indeed, "vitality" is a loose translation for Zhivago, for Pasternak coined his hero's name from the Russian word for "alive." Love of life is at the heart of Pasternak's devastating indictment of the Communist regime. He believes that history is a shadow cast by man, not a bloodstained leash to drag him to future "social betterment." 'Says Doctor Zhivago: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life . . . Life is never a material...
...country." Yet De Gaulle had placed the F.L.N. rebels in a delicate position. For the first time, Paris had a government not about to topple at any moment, and a new sense of destiny had swept through France, and could easily spread to the Moslems in Algeria. The last word had not yet been heard from the rebels...
...London, Makarios is almost as bad a word as Nasser. The British, who exiled him to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in 1956, do not trust his word. What was to prevent the Greek Cypriots, once they got independence, from deciding, for instance, to unite with Greece...
...England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed, Béraud was sentenced to death. General de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. In poor health, Béraud was released after five years...