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...youth he had identified and attached his name to a new species of butterfly, created the first Russian crossword puzzle, and translated Alice in Wonderland into his native tongue. Later, in the thirties, under the pseudonym V.V. Sirin, he had written what many critics consider the finest Russian novel of the century, The Gift. In the fifties, with a book called Lolita, he had put the word "nymphet" into the dictionary. Ada's masterful complexity seemed a natural culmination to the long list of novels, stories, poems, and plays...
Traveling informally is the finest way to go, Steve says, and at the end of this year, he plans to wander across the U.S. for two months with Harvard hockey player Doug Elliott...
Long Day's Journey Late Night. O'Neill expressed the full agony of American Family life in his best play, which is also the finest American drama, Sidney Lumet, who hasn't made a fine film since, assembled a great cast to perform it-Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell-and picked a master cineniatographer, Boris Kaufman, to make the images jibe with the faces and dialogue. The result is devastating...
Mind Wrenching. Yet neither the peyote spirit Mescalito nor psilocybe mushrooms can guarantee the sorcerer's survival. That depends on his "impeccable will"; and Castaneda's third and finest book, Journey to Ixtlan, describes the forging of that will, as Don Juan-without drugs -communicates the lessons of the warrior's power to his obstinately Cartesian student in the bright burnt mountains and lava gorges of Mexico...
This Saturday, while most people are slowly getting out of bed or sitting on their tailgates wolfing down drinks and sandwiches prior to the Penn-Harvard football game, the same two schools will meet in what promises to be one of the finest college soccer games of the year. Once again, however, the fans will be subjected to Harvard's inadequate seating, inadequate programs and its wholly inadequate manual scoreboard. Ivy soccer may be in the big leagues, but as far as the athletic departments of the Ivy schools are concerned, it remains in the bush leagues...