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...insider's book, written by a keen observer with special access to legal records and 17 years of experience as a defense attorney and professor of law. Indeed, so great is Simis' expertise that in 1976 KGB men raided his apartment and confiscated an early manuscript version of the book. He was obliged to leave the Soviet Union and now lives in Virginia. No angry, polemicizing emigre, he is saddened by the debasement of a nation that was once built on Utopian principles, albeit by terror and violence. "Year after year since childhood," he writes, "I watched...
...loss was more serious than the average auto-theft, for inside the van was virtually everything Roe owned, including eight or nine cartons of books, notes and other papers, notably half of a manuscript in progress on Roe's specialty: public interest...
...novel in this century has drawn such worldwide acclaim," said the London Daily Express of Doctor Zhivago. That was the trouble. By the time an English version reached the U.S. in 1958, two years after Boris Pasternak had sent his manuscript out of the Soviet Union, the novel's potential readers were already weary, and wary, of the Pasternak affair. It had been in the headlines for more than a year. In literary circles, skepticism and envy were aroused by the celebrity of the author and by his Nobel Prize. More disturbing to some intellectuals was the political aspect...
...civil rights movement and the more general social activism of the late 1960s. Its potential constituency was the broadest and the deepest, but so were the problems it addressed: too wide, too varied, rooted too deep in sexuality and self-image, even in language. Ms.? An abbreviation for manuscript; an affectation otherwise, a pretense. Abortion? A moral question, never a biological one. Right to work? Something the unions settled during the Depression...
Says Herman W Liebert librarian emeritus of Yale's Binecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. "He [Bond] inherited a wonderful resource and had a very, very difficult act to follow, but he has lived up to the challenge[Houghton] is one of the finest collections in the world because ofWilliam Bond...