Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when I was 17 or 18, living in China, my father introduced me to books of Vladimir Sirin, which was Nabokov's pseudonym at that time. The first books that I read were The Luzhin Defence; King, Queen, Knave; Invitation to an Execution and some delightful short stories written in Russian. I kept all of his books for years, reading them over and over until they resembled worn-out library books; unfortunately, I lost them in a fire during the war in Manila...
Upheld Obscenity. Two conservative Republican Senators, Paul Fannin of Arizona and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, launched their own attacks last week on the liberal maverick who has sat on the high bench for 30 of his 70 years. Fannin noted solemnly that Douglas had written an article on folk singing for Avant Garde magazine after the Supreme Court upheld an obscenity conviction against its publisher, Ralph Ginzburg. Douglas, who collected only $350 for the piece, was one of four dissenters to the decision. Declared Thurmond: "Justice Douglas is the next one who must...
...persecutions of camp life have not quenched the spirit of Daniel and Ginzburg. Now, along with four other prisoners, they have written an open letter to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, urging "corrective legislation" to change the regulations in camps like Potma, where, according to official designation, "especially dangerous political prisoners" are held. Last week their letter was being circulated widely in Moscow...
...compulsory political meetings, the prisoners are given a "beginner's course of political literacy, repeated from year to year," and conducted by "half-educated officers mechanically reading what is written or repeating it in their own words. A question that the officer cannot answer (and these are in the majority) may be regarded as 'provocative' and the person who asked it is punished in one way or another. If you express your own view you risk a new trial and sentence...
...this world of literary abundance, it is surprising to think that any man who has ever written anything would be left out. It is more than surprising to hear that a scholar who has studied natural science at the University of Edinburgh; history, law, and medicine in Moscow; biology in Berlin; and psychoanalysis in Vienna would have his many works excluded...