Word: resistible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direct enough at surface level. Smurov, a young Russian emigré in Berlin, anxiously searches among his acquaintances for the identity of which the Revolution stripped him. This is a recurrent Nabokovian theme; he has never forgiven the Soviets for appropriating his childhood. But Nabokov could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction of a character named Khrushchov; in a foreword, Nabokov explains that the name...
...those who believe in the need for good men to resist the excesses of bad, this is a satisfying book. For those who see the Communists in Southeast Asia as simple, guileless and misled peasants, the descriptions of Laotian guards spitting into a cup of cold rice before giving it to the prisoners or shrieking with laughter when one of them looses a burst of machine-gun fire above the heads of the squatting, dysentery-stricken Americans should be enlightening. So, in a different manner, should be the details of the chill and efficient command role played in Laos...
...would question the argument that the U.S. should support reform and social revolution in Latin America, even if it is sometimes hard to separate the genuine reformers from the Communists. And there are still, as Fulbright says, Latin Americans who cry Communism to resist change. But the U.S. has found plenty of anti-Communists to back-anti-Communists who are also reformers. It wholeheartedly supports Chile's President Eduardo Frei, who beat a Marxist to win office. It has committed $119 million to help Peru's Fernando Belaúnde Terry wage a social revolution that will...
...group, it opens up to include you." Members, staff, even the bartender patiently introduce people to one another. A cozy fire burns constantly in the air-conditioned bar. Best of all, there are the magicians. The house maintains two strolling legerdemainists, but the member magicians themselves cannot resist trying to fool fellow pros and other guests. One or another of them is constantly dropping by different tables to request that someone "pick a card...
...from Edison. The space technicians have also found countless new uses for old products. Thomas Edison in 1883 developed the world's most heat-resistant material-pyrolytic graphite-but it languished until researchers began to coat nose cones with it to resist high re-entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using...