Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighting the Army. The 171 pros who qualified for the 44th P.G.A. took one look at Aronimink's broad fairways and manicured greens, helpfully dampened by heavy showers, and pronounced the course "honest"-which is pro talk for "a cinch." But they reckoned without two handicaps: the hot, humid...
The spirit capable of this sort of afflatus has trouble in this world. His most characteristic letter is the one that most eloquently set forth the bitter awareness that his great gifts needed as great a discipline to create the form in which they might be expressed. He was only...
Agreeable Evasiveness. When the government fell in 1834, half-demented King William IV picked Melbourne as Prime Minister because he liked him. "I think it's a damned bore," sighed Melbourne. The populace agreed. "He is certainly a queer fellow to be Prime Minister," remarked a politician. His job...
Of the three literary giants in America in the 19th century's last decades, one, Mark Twain, evaded the strictures of prudery because he was a humorist and because he was Mark Twain. The second, Henry James, very nearly succeeded in turning the strictures into virtues. The third, and...
One explanation may lie in Nabokov's hypersensitivity to what is written about him. He does not at all enjoy the spectacle of clumsy minds trying to sniff out the "true" Nabokov. In Switzerland, where he now lives with his wife in a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva, he is...