Word: cousinship
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Actually, it is something between prose and poetry that Nabokov has used-he has retained Pushkin's iambic tetrameter-and the result is a recognizable and respectable cousinship. To a Russian raised on the original poem, Nabokov's version naturally lacks the music, but retains much of the rhythm, and at least does not (as do the often jingly previous translations) mock Pushkin's music by the clumsiness of its imitation. The sense is as nearly exact as translation permits...
...doctrinaire about the South. It also manages to maintain a bit of suspense about the Wales-Greene mystery, though most of it gets lost in such a welter of flashbacks that even Cinema-Scope will have trouble straightening things out. The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott...
...perfectly wonderful trip down" by air that morning from her Long Island home. Dressed in all white, she was a sentimental centre of attraction, whose presence gave notice to any one in the nation who was still confused, that there was no connection save a distant cousinship between her late great husband and the Democratic nominee. Beneath striped awnings on the South grounds were tables piled with a buffet luncheon-potato and chicken salad, cold cuts, sandwiches, iced tea and lemonade, six kinds of ice cream. President Hoover moved informally among his guests, eating a little here, a little there...
...novel, "Wensley," Edmund Quincy sets forth the trials of his rustication. The undergraduate was punished by being forced, by chance and not the faculty, in almost every instance to meet, and usually to marry some very attractive girl after he had established a fourth cousinship...
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