Word: authorly
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...addition, the legacy of Forbes and Sachs has increased opportunities for curators to author exhibitions and a greater sense of intellectual autonomy regarding their peculiar interests. Unlike large public institutions such as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg is not dependent on returns at the door...
...that they were merely "reaching out" to grieving friends in more than a dozen phone calls with the First Lady and White House aides shortly after they searched Foster's office. "D'Amato is trying to prove a conspiracy that will be very difficult to prove," Martin L. Gross, author of The Great Whitewater Fiasco: An American Tale of Money, Power and Politics, told TIME Daily. "It seems clear that there was a series of phone calls between Williams, Thomases and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum the morning after Foster's death. And it's also clear that the Whitewater...
...some of the most nape-tingling prose and devilish inventions in 20th century letters. So better late than never, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Knopf; 659 pages; $35) is a welcome edition to the shelves of old admirers and a chance for entry-level fans to sample the author's delights...
...appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for the first time, among them The Wood-Sprite, written in 1921 and listed as the author's first published story...
Until Lolita ("light of my life, fire of my loins") scorched the best-seller list in 1955, Nabokov was a popular instructor of literature at Cornell, a productive but obscure author of exotic fiction and chess problems, and an even lesser known authority on butterflies. His genius for transforming sensory impressions into language may always remain elusive, but his descriptive powers owe much to training in natural science...