Word: pens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rumors circulate: children are to be liquidated next. Anya manages to spirit Ninka out of the ghetto and place her with a Christian family. Then it is the entire ghetto that is to be emptied of people. Vilno's Jews are herded from their pen and divided into two groups, one for extermination, the other made up of people strong enough to work...
...Flag blamed internal bickering and factionalism for the fall of the brutal, short-lived Chin dynasty of the 3rd century B.C. This subtle piece of historical allegory was written by one Lo Szu-ting; Sinologists regard him as a spokesman for Mao-if not Mao himself writing under a pen name. Since then, there has been scarcely a murmur from the radicals...
...feels uneasily, be blurred rendering of "Vladimir Vladimirovich." As to his own surname, poor Vadim cannot remember it, though he feels fairly sure it begins with "N" -Naborcroft, he wonders? Nablize? (The experienced reader, meanwhile, notices that Vadim's pseudonym "V. Irisin" sounds a lot like "Sirin," the pen name of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, an émigré Russian of illustrious but not aristocratic background who wrote in Berlin, not Paris, after the revolution. This Sirin, Nabokov has been heard to assert, is a writer to be ranked with Pushkin, Tolstoy and Gogol, and well above Dostoyevsky...
...this year I had learned my lesson. Rather than risk discovering new species of seminarus superficialus, I decided to visit my old haunts. Now I sit eagerly with 300 other students and eagerly pen down the gilded words of Professor W****** J***** B**** as he expounds on Samuel Johnson. I am no longer an aspiring Norman Mailer, drifting through classrooms in search of a good fray. Now I'm more like a Philip Roth character, working out my intellectual frustrations alone in my room, the same way Alexander Portnoy allayed his sexual troubles. Harvard encourages intellectual masturbation...
...files. Among Ballantine's most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called Mission Bell in suburban Los Angeles...