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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...correlated compromises; (5) Search for modes of-and new motivations International cooperation; (6) at Harvard a course in disarms stressing original papers by groups, and taught by Professor man, if possible. (My intense object to his recent contributions are suit of a conviction that he is of extraordinarily Important work field--and that he is an excellent .) , Fall 1960, must be Organizations such as Sane, Tocsin the AFSC should be given the of this newspaper and the . No one is interested in cold war--they are interested in . Paul...
...possibly a credit sophomore seminar. Such plans would be feasible, of course, only to the extent of the availability of faculty time, but if a professor has a few hours a week free, and there are students who seek guidance, is there any reason not to encourage their working together by institution of such programs? The professor's guidance could be given either individually or in small sections. Following the plan of the Freshman Seminars, these programs would not be given within departments, but would be free to cross department lines if necessary. Sophomores with interests in either humanities, natural...
Looking at Simonov's work one finds Communism rarely mentioned. The emphasis is rather on nationalism and on people. Communism is affirmed indirectly, however, because the people and nation about which Simonov cares all accept it. One is reminded of a passage in Days and Nights in which a priest, the father of one of the soldiers is being described: "... he was a powerful man, and sometimes a rough one. But the father had never known hatred. He had not loved the demobilized Red Army soldier, Stepanyuk, who had opened a branch of "The Society of the Godless...
...U.S.S.R., in addition to doing his own creative work, Simonov is also an active and very important member of the Union of Writers. As literary editor of the Union magazine, Novyi Mir, he was among the first who read and refused to publish Doctor Zhivago. "There were two reasons why I didn't like the book. First, it seemed to me that Pasternak considered the February revolution a good thing and that he thought the October revolution was evil. I think the October revolution was a good thing. So, from the standpoint of ideas, I disagreed. Then, the fact...
Asked earlier in he converation, "Are you a Marxist?" Simonov replied in a low voice, but with obvious pride, "I am a Communist" (i.e. a party member). When he was asked, however, whether or not he wrote Marxist books, he smiled and said "I never thought of describing my work in just that way. I was never particularly good in philosophy and so my books aren't very philosophical. Just the same, I can see no contradiction between my writing and my politics...