Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he asks for written questions before each interview and composes his answers with care, Nabokov loves to lose himself in talk. Anecdotes, observations, puns, jokes, are offered in an almost endless flow. The visitors from TIME had come forewarned. The New York office contains a surprising number of longtime Nabokov experts. Contributing Editor Mark Vishniak, a member of the magazine's Russian Desk since 1946, knew Nabokov's father in Petrograd. The families fled the country together in 1919. Later, in Paris, Vishniak edited a Russian quarterly that published young Vladimir's early novels. Researcher Vera...
...steady, cool and dependable singles player, "The Rock" was a fixture at the number two slot all season, and his victory over Princeton's Rick Howell was the turning point in the Crimson's 5-4 victory over the co-champion Tigers...
...band of unknown black jazzmen from New Orelans. In the fall, the old men gathered in a piano warehouse to make some home recordings because the professional studios in the city refused to record Negroes. When the crude recording machine was warmed up, Bunk stomped off the first number, "Make Me a Pallet on the Flood," and the "revival" of traditional jazz began...
English teenagers mobbed him, trying to touch him, to see his face, to hear his voice. He played before packed concert halls, mesmerizing huge audiences with the simple, lyrical beauty of his horn, receiving wildly enthusiastic ovations at the end of each number. What was the magic of this frail little black man from the back streets of New Orleans? What was there in his music that spoke its message to the hearts of these Englishmen, Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Japanese as it had spoken to his own people for almost 50 years...
...small group of undergraduates today will try to collect the signatures of two-thirds (4000) of the undergraduate community on a petition stating that, if and only if the desired number agrees, they will boycott their examinations...