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Life in California freed Nabokov of the need to write in the bathroom. But he needed all his astonishing powers of concentration and creative effort for the challenge now facing him. "It had taken me some 40 years to invent Russia and Western Europe," he wrote of the problem, "and now I was faced by the task of inventing America...
...frame surrounded by the grey emptiness of the floor (expressionism approaches surrealism). He rises and, in a stunning melodramatic sequence, directs his men to fire on an American ship in order to force it to land medical supplies on the disease-ridden island (romanticism). He recovers, is freed, and returns home to his family and country home (lyrical Griffith-evoking classicism). American classicism as we know it is reserved for the ending and two early scenes in Mudd's home, in order to create a sense of harmony and domestic tranquillity prior to his imprisonment. The rest of the film...
Debate over Dividend. The size and shape of the "peace dividend"-the resources freed to the nation by an end to the war-remains open to question. It would not be nearly as huge as claimed by those who blame all the nation's ills on Viet Nam. On the over-optimistic premise of a possible ceasefire early this year, Schultze projected a dividend that would grow from $8 billion in 1971 to as much as $40 billion a year in 1974 as the economy continued to expand. During his campaign, President Nixon mentioned a dividend figure...
Second, I was never "freed" because I was neither held nor officially accused of any misconduct. I might add that numerous witnesses of the events in Dunster courtyard were prepared to testify in my behalf had it been necessary...
...with as little change as possible--that some of school's students have concluded recently that they, like undergraduates, must ignore the School to profit by their time there. One student who was active in the first-year students' movement for grade reform says the year's experience has "freed" many of his classmates. "Some of us accept the fact that the faculty can't understand the way we feel and is just irrelevant...