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Most of New York went about its business with only a passing interest in the extra-thick traffic jams, but the fringes were crackling with antagonistic citizens and fanatic European émigrés who unfurled their banners and epithets with grim satisfaction whenever they got the chance. To keep these and the other hordes at safe distance, billy-twirling cops patrolled the approaches to the U.N., the streets and buildings where the guests made their headquarters, the avenues they traveled. Busloads of reserve police stationed themselves at strategic points and waited for alarms. Mounted cops assembled to ward...
...Florida, winged émigrés from Africa trailed tourists' cars through the Everglades, looking for a meal; see SCIENCE, Long Way from Home...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging émigré's love for a "nymphet...
PNIN, by Vladimir Nabokov. About an émigré Russian professor at a U.S. college whose joyously ridiculous English and congenital helplessness only faintly conceal the sorrow of exile...
Novelist Vladimir (Bend Sinister) Nabokov, 57, himself an émigré Russian and a Cornell professor of Russian literature, does more than sound-track his hero for laughs; in unobtrusive flashbacks he captures the underlying pathos of exile. Leafing through an émigré journal, Pnin sees his dead father and mother in the lamplit serenity of their pre-Revolutionary home; stonily viewing a Soviet documentary film, he bursts into tears at a sudden glimpse of the Russian countryside in springtime...