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"Beauty Will Save the World!" (Documentary)

Tapestry

October 31, 2010

Season 2010,

54:03

This week on Tapestry, a documentary by CBC producer Frank Faulk. While imprisoned in the Soviet gulag Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would compose speeches expressing the cruelty he suffered. However in 1970, upon receiving the Nobel Prize he simply said: "Beauty Will Save the World!" Frank Faulk explores this provocative statement.

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