Word: zhivago
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...free hand in decision making and in the investment of organization funds. Officials spoke glowingly of the day when party and economic posts would be filled democratically, with more than one candidate competing for every job. A Soviet editor announced that next year Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Doctor Zhivago, would be published in the Soviet Union for the first time. While those measures and the freeing of some dissidents gave reason to expect further liberalization, the crackdown on the refuseniks indicated that, as Ambassador Hartman observed, the Soviets have not yet changed their basic view of the relationship between...
Back in 1958 I witnessed the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Writers' ( Union. Some even demanded that he be thrown out of the country. They called him a "pig rooting in our Soviet garden." Today Historian Dmitri Likhachev in a Literaturnaya Gazeta article unequivocally demands that Doctor Zhivago be published. Today our literary journals are preparing important books for publication: Vladimir Dudintsev writing about Stalin's suppression of genetics; Anatoli Pristavkin on the forced resettlement of ethnic Chechens from the Caucasus; Anatoli Rybakov on the assassination of Sergei Kirov. All these subjects were banned in the past...
...five-day congress, members of the Soviet Writers' Union voted overwhelmingly to transform the former country house of Pasternak, who had once been a virtual non-person, into a museum. Writers also discussed the publication of Pasternak's most important novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is still banned in the Soviet Union. They apparently reached no definite ! conclusions about recommending publication...
...January, Yolanda ran up a gown of white leather, python skin, fox, mink, Swakara and gold cloth with a complementing jacket of Russian golden sable. Such an outfit might seem a little . . . well, declamatory, but it was certainly of a piece with the proceedings, whose wintry "theme" was Doctor Zhivago. The bride and bridegroom greeted reception guests from a bejeweled white velvet sleigh custom-made by the bride's father. Cost of the festivities, including a 250- lb. wedding cake shaped into a replica of Red Square...
Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate...