Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After seven weeks of scholarly consultation at Geneva, U.S., British, Russian, Polish and other scientists issued definite recommendations for a nearly trickproof control system (TIME, Aug. 25). There were no minority reports, no signs of maneuvering for political advantage. Both sides agreed that a proper system of fewer than 200 stations would detect with high accuracy even small explosions anywhere on earth...
...Gazette howled in vain. The entire edition of T.S. 41-160,000 copies -was snapped up by discerning readers weeks ago. Everywhere Russian kids were reading it, their eyes glued to such feverish lines...
...RUSSIAN TRADE SHOW will be staged in Manhattan's Coliseum for four weeks next June-July, history's first major Soviet exhibit in U.S. In return, U.S. will set up exhibit at Moscow's Gorki Park...
...like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that of the heart's exile from the far country of its desires, a logical reflection of the physical exile of longtime Russian Emigre Nabokov. The uprooted, he seems...
...Signs and Symbols, a boy is exiled from his sanity while his parents wait helplessly for the telephone call from the sanitarium that will tell them that one of his recurrent suicide attempts has succeeded. "That in Aleppo Once . . ." tells of a Russian emigré torn from the girl he married "a few weeks before the gentle Germans roared into Paris.'' One story. First Love-"true in every detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story...