Word: zhivago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heads in the Kremlin also suffer pains whenever Moskva or Novy Mir, the leading journal in the liberal upsurge, comes out on the stands. The most recent issue of Novy Mir is running a memoir by Boris Pasternak, whose work has been suspect ever since he allowed his Doctor Zhivago to be published in the West (where it ultimately sold 4,500,000 copies). The sketch relates how Pasternak once wrote to Stalin with sarcastic thanks for sparing him the same official adulation accorded Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from "blowing...
...West. The debate between liberals and dogmatists will intensify as the time approaches for next month's Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers-the first conclave of its kind in eight years. As for Tvardovsky, he still hopes to succeed in an ambitious new project: publication of Doctor Zhivago in Russia for the first time...
More than just live Muzak, the best of the cocktail pianists "play the room," alternating from up-tempo numbers to dreamy lullabies to suit the mood of the audience. Requests are encouraged (current favorite: Lara's Theme from the film score of Doctor Zhivago), but in many instances the cocktail pianist is more prized for his fellowship than his musicianship. Table hopping between sets is essential, and any pianist worth his arpeggio greets the entrance of old customers by sliding into their favorite numbers...
Married. Robert Bolt, 42, British playwright (A Man for All Seasons) and Oscar-winning film scenarist (Doctor Zhivago); and Sarah Miles, 24, British actress (Blow-Up); he for the second time; in Woking, England...
...They point out how many times in recent years U.S. designers have shown the way. St. Laurent's "pop art" dresses this year look much like U.S. teen-age fad dresses of last summer. The hit of Bohan's collection for Dior this July was the "Doctor Zhivago" long coat, coupled with a short-skirted suit; yet the U.S.'s Gernreich showed the same style in 1963, and half a dozen other American designers showed it in 1965 and May 1966. "Paris has no longer got what we go to look for," says Manufacturer Mollie Parnis. "Everything...