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...stripped him. This is a recurrent Nabokovian theme; he has never forgiven the Soviets for appropriating his childhood. But Nabokov could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction of a character named Khrushchov; in a foreword, Nabokov explains that the name was chosen innocently, though it has since picked up "comic" resonance...
...teasing, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't election talk went on, a lot of Canadians were tiring of Pearson's game. "If Mr. Pearson does not have serious and clear views on whether there should be an election," said the Ottawa Journal, "he should conceal that ghastly vacuum in impressive silence." With that kind of sentiment growing and John Diefenbaker sharpening his sword, there was a chance that a fall election might leave Pearson little better off than he is right...
...offered by U.S. airlines, each carrier still manages to provide some individual touches. First-class passengers on Lufthansa drink German draft beer, eat smoked-ham sandwiches on black pumpernickel. Alitalia bills itself as the "simpatico" airline: its stewardesses, though trained to wear makeup that looks made down, never quite conceal that tantalizing touch of Loren that they all seem to have. The newest wrinkle in service is the package tour that KLM and Belgium's Sabena (as well as the U.S.'s Pan American) will propose at the International Air Transport Association meeting in Bermuda this month. Under...
...Fowler made clear that he considered the improvement temporary, and that the U.S. still has a balance-of-payments problem: "We don't take it as a sign that we have turned the corner from deficits to surpluses." Nonetheless, even the careful qualifications could not conceal the fact that the U.S. has come quite a way from its $756 million loss in 1965's first quarter and the peak $1.6 billion deficit of 1964's last quarter. If the new figures did not show that the payments problem is licked, they at least demonstrated...
Abram Tertz (The Trial Begins; Fantastic Stories) is a famous Russian novelist who has never been published in Russia. To stay alive he is compelled to conceal his identity from all but a few intimates, smuggle his manuscripts out of the country for publication abroad. Readers of this witty, surrealistic satire on dictators in general and the Soviet system in particular will readily see the reason for his caution...