Review of Doctor Zhivago (1965) by Ron P — 30 Mar 2008

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[*][size=4][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]Ten weeks after I had come to the firmest and most realistic of decisions I had yet made regarding my future career?the decision to become a primary school teacher--the film Dr. Zhivago was released. During my pre-adult life(1963-1944), I had wanted to be a bricklayer, a fireman and a professional baseball player--in that order. My career as a primary school teacher also proved unrealistic and was short-lived, although it proved to be much more realistic than those other three alternatives mentioned above, all of which were early life enthusiasms born of childhood and adolescent play and dreams.[/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]On 22 December 1965, the day that the film Dr. Zhivago was released, I was on my way to a Baha?i youth winter school at the University of Waterloo campus in Waterloo Ontario. The film was shot in the previous months while my father lay dying in Dundas Ontario, while my mother was finishing her working life and retiring and while I was majoring in history, philosophy and sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. In the first year(22/12/65-22/12/66) of the release of Dr. Zhivago, a film that became one of the most popular 20th century movies, I moved to Windsor to study under Dr. Jameson Bond, an anthropologist at the University of Windsor and a Baha?i who had lived in the high Arctic for a dozen years; I also began my teacher training and started a relationship with Miss Judy Gower whom I married in August 1967.[/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]After pondering with some anxiety for eight months(12/65-8/66) the decision to teach school in the Canadian Arctic and after finishing my degree; after selling ice-cream for the Good Humour Company for three summer months and after attending a one week Baha?i youth training institute in Michigan, I left my home town, family and friends and started teaching career on Baffin Island among the Inuit. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 30 March 2008.[/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]own romance not unlike Zhivago?s in [/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]snow-bound world of quite another time.[/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]made---the enterprize all came to naught: [/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]an inner poetic beauty, a new life and--like [/size][/font].

[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]Zhivago--I created one with my own Lara2 [/size][/font].

[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]and life went on and on toward my own[/size][/font].

[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]mysterious end which has not yet come.[/size][/font].

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[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]1[/size][size=3] Written by Karl Marx in the summer of 1844.[/size][/font].

[*][font=Arial Narrow][size=3]2 [/size][size=3]While married, but separated from my first wife, I formed a relationship with a woman who became my second wife in December 1975.[/size][/font].

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