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...vowel. His colleagues at a small Eastern college can make out Pnin's pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
There seem to be at least three basic techniques for beating the system--the social, the athletic, and the esthetic. The simplest version of the social is to change one's name to Saltonstall or Roosevelt (Teddy's side, of course) and let the interviewer worry about the rest. A simpler and more satisfying method is to sit placidly (i.e., quiet ostentation) throughout the interview and then ask at the session's close, "How much does Harvard need for that new house? Daddy was wondering." Can't miss...
...whisk of the author's wand puts plain John ill at ease in the count's clothes and drawing room, half wanting and half dreading to be discovered as an impostor. The simplest acts are tense puzzlers, like finding his way to bed and then finding out who is in it. Acting the count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years...
...Simplest way to do this would be to build two conventional accelerators and make their particles collide, but all the machines known today shoot out so few particles that collisions between them would be too rare. Dr. Jones described a special accelerator that yields a beam so dense that it should cause many collisions with another beam. Better yet is Ohkawa's idea: an accelerator with two streams of particles circulating in opposite directions in the same circular path. Guided in a chainlike pattern by magnetic fields of alternating direction, the streams will cross each other many times...
...President Eisenhower's Declaration of In dependence on foreign policy [Nov. 12] appeals to me as the most profound expression of our generation for world peace. Granting the difficulties to be encountered before the dream can become a reality, here in the simplest, most direct language are expressed the basic principles on which any lasting world peace must rest...