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...decades between Cambridge and World War II, three pieces of great good fortune befell Nabokov. In 1925 he married Vera Evseena Slonim, the slim and beautiful daughter of a Jewish St. Petersburg industrialist also ruined by the revolution. In 1934 they had a son, Dmitri, an only child now studying opera in Italy. In 1939, having moved from Berlin to Paris to avoid the Nazis, Nabokov quite by chance received and accepted a proposal to lecture on Slavic languages at Stanford...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). The life and music of Composer Dmitri Shostakovich are presented in still photographs and recent documentary footage in this Soviet-produced film...
This is Vladimir Nabokov's second novel, written and published in Russian in 1928, when he was a 28-year-old émigré living in Berlin. It was recently roughed into English by Nabokov's son Dmitri, then tightened and buffed to a cold brilliance by the author. "Of all my novels," says Nabokov, "this bright brute is the gayest. Expatriation, destitution, nostalgia had no effect on its elaborate and rapturous composition...
Died. Albertina Rasch, 76, ballerina, choreographer and wife of Composer Dmitri Tiomkin; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Trained in Vienna's Imperial Theater, a performer in New York at 16, Albertina Rasch determined to awaken U.S. interest in ballet by taking the dance into vaudeville's thriving circuits, first as a soloist, later as head of her own troupe. The acclaim she found there led her into cho- reography-for Ziegfeld's Show Girl, Rio Rita, and to the lavish productions of Hollywood, where in 1938 she directed 800 dancers during a single week...
This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his trip into the secret world beyond language also can be played by the ordinary reader, particularly if he is a genius...