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...Harvard's Dr. Julian Schwinger, 47, and Dr. Richard P. Feynman, 47, of the California Institute of Technology, who share the physics prize with Tokyo's Dr. Shin-ichiro Tomonaga, 59; Francois Jacob, 45, Andre Lwoff, 63, and Jacques Monod, 55, sharing the prize for medicine; and Cossack Novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don) Mikhail Shololchov, 60, who says he shares the prize for literature with the Soviet people even though the award does come "a little late...
Because of the "power and integrity" of his epic, And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), the Swedish Academy awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature to Cossack Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, 60. In Moscow the Writers' Union called the award the "rehabilitation of the Nobel Prize." Western critics recalled what the prize was being "rehabilitated" from-the 1958 episode when the party bludgeoned the late Boris Pasternak into "voluntarily" refusing the prize. Sholokhov himself had got in some of the licks, denouncing the Swedes as "unobjective" and belittling the author of Doctor Zhivago as a "hermit crab." Now that...
...could tire as easily of the similarity of style. It is therefore fortunate that Russian music was put to such a test Friday night at Sanders Theatre. The Church music, with its full harmonies and low basses, stands in such contrast to the soldiers' songs, love ballads, and haunting Cossack melodies that there was sufficient variation to sustain the audience's interest...
...galosh has gone galumphing into oblivion, and in its place is the musketeer boot, the Robin Hood boot, the cossack boot, lined, unlined, fur-topped, made of fake leopard or silk faille or nylon mesh or even real leather. Office girls wear them to work at the slightest sign of inclement weather, carrying their shoes in a tote bag (the smarter ones keep a pair of shoes in their desk). For the evening, slippers are carried in jeweled reticules...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The Moscow State Circus, featuring the Kochenov Cossack Riders and a bear who rides a motorcycle...