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...HARRY LEVIN Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature...
...friend, Harvard Critic Harry Levin, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel written in English, was published. A haunting, accomplished and entirely Nabokovian novel about a man who loses his own identity trying to write the fictional biography of his lost brother, it appeared almost unnoticed. By the time he reached Cornell he had published Bend Sinister (1947), a study of a police state, parts of Speak, Memory, one of the most beautiful autobiographies in English. Yet he was barely known on campus as a man of letters, much less a literary genius...
...Levin's style won him all but two matches this spring. The verbal psyche helped. Last weekend, playing with Rocky Jarvis at first doubles, Levin had just missed a devastating forehand slam. Glancing at his Yale opponent and breaking into a grin he said, "I really wanted to demolish you that time." The Yale tandem fell...
...group I student, Levin will attend Stanford ed school next year, then hopes to enroll at Harvard Business School. In all probability, his tennis "career" is over. But if you ask Levin, he will probably say, "I never really had a career. I just played a lot of tennis...
...native Californian, he was a natural partner for captain John Levin at first doubles, and the unit easily won the New England doubles title this spring, and lost only once during the regular season...