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Through the week, Adam kept up his high spirits. He led barroom hymn sessions, kidded with reporters, took dockside strolls to survey Bimini's natural resources ("Is that all you? he asked one girl in a tight sweater who sauntered past). There was at least some good news to justify his buoyant mood. Exclusion made him eligible for a $15,000 pension-half his regular congressional salary. Better yet, the New York Court of Appeals, highest in the state, lopped $100,000 off the outstanding libel judgment against him and ordered a lower court to reconsider another part...
SPEAK, MEMORY, by Vladimir Nabokov. Robbed of his Russian youth by the Revolution, Novelist Nabokov has tirelessly caressed his memories of it in this autobiography, now published in its final form- a hymn to childhood...
SPEAK, MEMORY, by Vladimir Nabokov. Robbed of his Russian youth by the revolution, Novelist Nabokov has tirelessly caressed his memories of it in this autobiography, now published in its final form -a hymn to childhood...
...success by leaving the U.S., where he lived until 1960, to take up a voluntary exile in a hotel in Montreux, Switzerland-as near as he can get to the source of his memories, as near as he wants to get. In a foreword to this splendid hymn to his past, he suggests that one day he will write a sequel, Speak On, Memory, covering the years spent in America...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: HODIE (Angel). This first recording of Williams' cantata has some exuberant, even jazzy moments, but the general mood is sweetly hushed and hymnlike -a reverent setting for various poetic passages about Christmas, such as Thomas Hardy's Oxen and Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. David Willcocks turns in his usual impeccable performance as director of the several choruses and the London Symphony Orchestra...