STANDING UP TO CENSORSHIP AND GROUPTHINK: “Don’t yell at me. But if you must yell, at least don’t do it in unison.”

Plus: “Pasternak’s humanistic message — that every person is entitled to a private life and deserves respect as a human being, irrespective of the extent of his political loyalty or contribution to the state — poses a fundamental challenge to the Soviet ethic of sacrifice of the individual to the Communist system.”