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A WORLD SPLIT APART

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS DELIVERED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, JUNE 8, 1978 (ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN EDITION)

This, the text of the 1978 Harvard commencement address, falls under the heading of what Gunter Grass recently called "one of those strange antifreedom speeches" Solzhenitsyn has been giving since he came to live in the United States—but it is not merely a jeremiad denouncing Western materialism, moral laxity, loss of nerve: "the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness." For, however unreasonable Solzhenltsyn may be—however extreme, dogmatic, retardataire—he serves as a goad by his very ardor; and his vision of courage under stress—the basis of his claim for Eastern Europe's spiritual superiority—is attested to no less by the example (among others) of Sakharov, who otherwise disagrees with Solzhenitsyn in virtually every respect. Westerners meanwhile can rejoice that our degenerate, debilitated society at least gives Solzhenitsyn a free hearing.

Pub Date: Jan. 17, 1978

ISBN: 006132079X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: Oct. 4, 2011

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1978

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THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE

50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...

Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.

Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").

Pub Date: May 15, 1972

ISBN: 0205632645

Page Count: 105

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972

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NUTCRACKER

This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996

ISBN: 0-15-100227-4

Page Count: 136

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996

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