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...scathing, ironic portrayal of life in Russia in 1948 and its concentric circles of hell expanding out from Stalin, who has never been made so frighteningly real. Next month, Collins of London is bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works...
While in prison he had undergone a rough-and-ready operation for cancer. The disease now became acute again. Near death, he made his way to a hospital in Tashkent, where the tumor was arrested. The experience gave rise to Cancer Ward, a weaker book than his others. Yet the book rises toward the end to Solzhenitsyn's most direct statement of the complicity of everyone in the guilt of the past: "It's shameful, why do we take it calmly until we ourselves or those who are close to us are stricken? ... If no one is allowed for decade...
Throughout all this, Solzhenitsyn tried to get his works published in Russia. When, after a long battle, permission was refused to print Cancer Ward, he stormed furiously out of the Novy Mir office. A clerk who had helped him wrap up the huge manuscript reported his movements to the secret police, who later seized the book at the house of a friend to whom Solzhenitsyn had given it for safekeeping...
With a predicted GOP landslide repudiating the machine's political judgment ("machines must not only make the choice, but the right one," as one ward boss said) coupled with Daley's long-announced retirement in '71, a New Politics coalition of urban blacks (like Chicago Alderman Raney), white suburban liberals (like North Shore party leader Williams), and down-state forces (like Richard Mudge of Edwardsville) is a serious possibility. A liberal coalition of such size could force major concessions from what is left of the machine. This fall McCarthy forces are fighting a hopeless battle against Sen. Dirksen for liberal...
...fifty states (see p.3) revealed that the main problem at this point is to persuade discouraged liberals not to "leave and let the old hacks do the party work for the next four years and then get mad when the hacks choose their man," according to a Philadelphia ward boss. But this is very much the Old Politics...