Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early in the morning wearing a red velvet dress; it was a cast-off sent by relatives in Cuba where women didn't stifle themselves. During an experiment with LSD, she blurts: "I want to explain to you why women weep. IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN." The ocean mimes this woman's fluidity, color and sensuality...
...Ives's music, resolutely refusing "to let the ears lie back in an easy chair," insisting on testing everything by the transcendental standards, unconcerned with conventional consonance, that timider people set aside. The tunes everyone had known as a child would probably meet the standards--"Columbia Gem of the Ocean" and "Rock of Ages" were always popping up in Ives's music--and so might something entirely new, some quarter-tone creation uncorrupted by respectability or qualifying compromises. They'd both have to meet the same standards, though. They could be lumped together, and if the juxtaposition sounded funny--Ives...
...broad outline, the narrator's life resembles the author's: When the Bolshevist revolution strikes, Vadim Vadimovich N finds it expedient to leave his native Russia; after a few years at Cambridge and a few in Paris as a writer-in-exile, he crosses the ocean to become a writer-in-residence at a prestigious Eastern university. The memoirs at hand dash through some fifty years, four wives, and a series of books (first in Russian and later in English) that correspond, more or less, to Nabokov...
...successful trip of these bottles, which were designed to float like logs, shows that logs from North American rivers could have carried organisms across the Atlantic Ocean, Howard B. Fell, professor of Invertebrate Zoology and leader of the seminar, said yesterday...
...contests in a car, an encounter with a fat, aging woman with enormous breasts. There are asides (Titta's grandfather lost in the fog and thinking himself dead), bits of local color (practically the whole town moving out of the harbor in small boats to cheer a new ocean liner). Under all, there is a steady stream of events that do not change: a family death, a wedding...