Word: echo
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...collection contains "much, much more," to echo the last words of Nabokov's novel Ada. There are madmen, romantics, nymphets and those enduring symbols of the 20th century, melancholy exiles whose portable lives are light on possessions but heavy with memories. That Nabokov gave wings to his own past is reaffirmed by the publication of this long-overdue volume, an authentic literary event and, even at $35, the reading bargain of the year...
...paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...reasons this study has more concern is because it's about women," said Nhi-Ha T. Trinh '95, a peer counselor for Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO). "It's different for women because they are more to having eating disorders...
...sense of momentum toward statehood. Instead they have seen organizational anarchy, corruption and autocracy. Meanwhile, the realization is sinking in that the Israelis will exercise some control over their lives for the foreseeable future. As they watch their cheap flags fly in faded tatters, many Palestinians would echo the words of one of Arafat's aides: "We have an emotional catastrophe here. So many of us went to jail, lost friends to the battle with Israel. We ask ourselves, If we are not truly building a decent state, why did we go to jail for this damn cause...
...artistically, he was entirely a European. None of the American preoccupations with national landscape found the smallest echo in his work--not the sublime rhetoric of Frederick Church, not the tight-surfaced stillness of the Luminists and certainly not the blunt factuality of Winslow Homer. Whistler was a superb topographical etcher, as his scenes of London, Amsterdam and Venice show; but he cared nothing for realism when aesthetics pointed away from...