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Supporting this theory are the wealth of allusions that lead nowhere and the names that become meaningless anagrams ("Onhava," the capital of Zembla, becomes Navaho; ex-Zemblan can lead to dis-Zemblan, dissembler, resembler). Nabokov himself insists that "no book should ever have a deliberate message. It should be a combination of harmony and pleasure." If it is a key to a door, "the most important thing is for the key to work; it is quite unimportant what lies behind the door." Whatever meaning or non-meaning lies behind the door, any reader can delight in watching the greatest verbal...
...feather-filled than a pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain. On the day the thunderbird came...
...distinguished University scholar, K.M. Kluckhohn, died unexpectedly last Friday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for his work in anthropology, the professor was continuing his field studies among Navaho Indians in the Santa Fe region...
...other books centered upon anthropology, primarily studies of Navaho culture. In addition to his teaching duties, he served as Curator of Southwestern American Ethnology in the Peabody Museum...
...Dusted off the old X-10 frame that North American Aviation had begun working on way back in 1946 for its air-breathing Navaho missile, since scrapped...