Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tournaments. New Yorker Schenken, 54, was already renowned in the bridge world back in the early 1930s, has steadily maintained a reputation among the experts as one of the very greatest players, though he stands only twelfth in master points (2,919) and makes his living as a travel agent instead of a fulltime bridge pro. A recent recruit to Charles Goren's team, Schenken is a highly deceptive player, masks his imaginative boldness with an air of easygoing calm. In contrast, Washington's quick-minded Alvin Roth, 43, is a worrier, and shows...
...officially prudish Soviet Union, where every word destined for print is eyed beadily for salaciousness as well as political error, these winy words had as much chance of escaping notice as a nudist at a fashion show. Worse yet, they appeared in T.S. 41, From an Intelligence Agent's Notebook, a shoot-'em-up spy story in the Schoolchild's Library series published by the staid D.O.S.A.A.F. (Volunteer Society for Aiding the Army, Air Force and Navy). "Check your children's library," thundered the Literary Gazette, official organ of the Soviet Writers' Union...
...since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that of the heart's exile from the far country of its desires, a logical reflection of the physical exile of longtime Russian Emigre Nabokov. The uprooted, he seems to say. are more vulnerable...
...rule, he ordered an amnesty for all Albanian jailbirds, made lavish distributions of gold among the local chieftains. (To this day, one former foreign consul in Albania argues that no mere circus performer ever had that much money to spend, remains convinced that Otto was acting as an agent of the Austro-Hungarian government.) Then, genuine telegrams began to pour in from Constantinople. "It was a shame," Otto used to tell his admirers. "I would have established a fine, wise government." But "to avoid unnecessary bloodshed'' (his own), Otto slipped quietly out of town...
Divorced. Rock Hudson (real name: Roy Fitzgerald), 32, he-mandibled cinemactor (A Farewell to Arms)] by Phyllis Gates Fitzgerald, 32, his agent's onetime secretary; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...