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...setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my memory." On the Nord-Express, "I saw a city, with its toylike trams, linden trees and brick walls, enter the compartment, hobnob with the mirrors, and fill to the brim the windows on the corridor side." A telephone number rises from the welter of years: "What would happen...
...write in the hope that this letter will encourage a frank discussion of these problems. If such a discussion clarified American objectives in Viet Nam, it might help reverse the drift, which is now from confusion toward disaffection. Some questions...
...students also attacked the present Selective Service law as "unfair." They argued that there is a drift, among students, "from confusion toward disaffection" about...
Director Hunter, though he has given the show the correct tone, has also apparently fudged on some of the blocking. There are times when the actors drift about shiftlessly, and at least two of the songs are staged so that they seem to have no point. The second act chase, which may improve with the run, is now too slow...
Chances are that in most cases the games will stay, the boycotts will fade, and prices will drift upward. It may be small comfort to the housewives, but food still costs less in the U.S. than in many other countries: in West German supermarkets, steak goes for $2.25 a lb.: in Britain, string beans now command 60? a lb. Most important, Americans spend only 18% of their after-tax income for food, while Europeans-who have far fewer convenience foods -spend from...