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...riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours," wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. "But the small problems of practical life-things like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara...
...Pasternak's 'Dr. Zhivago' so desperately suppressed? Not because it contained a political attack on the Soviet regime--that could have been answered. Dr. Zhivago was truly a subversive because he rejected root and branch the whole concept of the revolution. He rejected it by ignoring it, by transcending it through his love for Lara. "You and I," Zhivago tells Lara, "are like Adam and Eve, the first two people who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with--and now at the end of it we are just as naked and homeless...
...cannot demand Pasternak's martyrdom from all artists, nor perhaps should we want to. Dr. Zhivago will remain an immortal book in the West, but it is inconceivable that it will be read in Russia in the near future. Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg might be toadies, and we might often find them despicable. Yet their dissent, no matter how veiled, will reach the Russian people. And their relentless pressure for new freedoms, no matter how hesitant, can produce an occasional "thaw," can help create a climate that will allow the publication of such works...
...When the Kissing Had to Stop and this side of 1984. Only the lewdies (the old) read any more and "newspapers not being read much neither." There is universal social security. The millicents (police) are everywhere. Russia is the dominant influence (the pop singers are Berti Laski and Johnny Zhivago), and it is suggested that Alex and his dreadful droogs (gangmates) get their Russian-based special vocabulary by subliminal propaganda. Life for Alex is real horrorshow (just fine-from the Russian kho-rosho?). Alex wears skin-tight black tights, padded pletchoes (shoulders) and real horrorshow boots for kicking. He likes...
Binger mentioned that he had formed a general impression of the alumnae by checking on their leisure time reading. The class of 1949, he said, read Dr. Zhivago, Everybody's Guide to the Stock Market, and How to Live in Peace with Your Nerves. Binger also said, "We have to do more for college-educated man. College doesn't prepare men emotionally and intellectually for the miserable lives they'll lead after they get married." The alumnae laughed...