Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 Kovarsky, who also escaped to France with her family during the Russian Revolution, remembers...
...Cover: Oil painting from life by Gerard de Rose. Background items include the spires of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; a portrait of Nabokov's mother at 34, painted by Leon Bakst in 1910; tiles from a Russian version of Scrabble; a brown wood nymph butterfly, and on the novelist's shoulder, a small blue Lycaena argiolus...
...suggested Columnist Tony Clifton in the Sunday Times of London, might a Russian reporter with a conspiratorial imagination interpret recent events in Britain. Clifton was taking a puckish poke at Kremlinologists in the West. Suspicious by trade, they have been agog with speculation and wild surmise about the deaths of twelve Russian generals within a recent 17-day period...
...putsch and failed. The ringleaders were quietly executed, so this tale went, and the unreliable Soviet army was forbidden to march through Red Square. Then there was the intriguing matter of General Valentin Penkovsky, most important of the dead generals-and the great-uncle of the most highly placed Russian ever to be recruited to spy for the West inside the U.S.S.R.-Oleg Penkovsky...
Right on target, more than four months after leaving the earth, two Russian spacecraft last week plunged into the murky atmosphere of Venus. Both Venus 5 and Venus 6 had apparently stood up well under the rigors of their 217-million-mile trips. Each spacecraft successfully ejected an instrumented capsule that radioed back information while parachuting toward the Venusian surface. At week's end, however, both capsules appeared to have fallen victim to intense Venusian heat before making their landings on the planet's surface...