Word: zhivago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is, however, considerable evidence that Evtushenko has denounced fellow Russians who have been imprisoned after political show trials. At a poetry reading in London in 1962, he contemptuously called Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's great love and the model for Dr. Zhivago's Lara, a "currency smuggler." Mrs. Ivinskaya was then serving an eight-year sentence in a Soviet labor camp on a trumped-up charge of "speculation." In 1966, when hundreds of distinguished Soviet intellectuals were publicly protesting the sentencing of Sinyavsky and Daniel to eight and five years' hard labor for having allegedly written...
...scores of other exotic places. Handwoven rugs and wall hangings from over thirty countries; jewelry, African sculptures, fur throws and pillows, and fur lined suede Polish "Zhivago" coats and jackets are among the many unusual handcrafted gift items for the home and that special person...
...Doctor Zhivago made him a star, but to Omar Sharif it was just another Hollywood moneymaker. The film that the Egyptian movie hero is now making in Hollywood, Che!, is quite another thing. With his scraggly beard and cigar, Omar is a ringer for Ernesto Guevara and really feels for him. "Che was a just man fighting for a good cause," says he. "If he had not used violence, he would have been one of the great men of the world...
...save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They only ask you to praise what you hate most and to grovel before what makes you most unhappy...
...Ostrava, Czechoslovak intellectuals face an audience of workers and their families for a political debate. A miner shouts: "Wasn't there anything good in the past?" More timidly, but no less urgently, a bespectacled young girl rises to ask: "Why can't we see the film Doctor Zhivago...