Word: speak
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Occasionally Nabokov plays games, as in the acrostic in "The Vane Sisters," but basically he eludes explication and literary criticism. He is a magician who gets us to watch the rabbit, not the false bottom of his hat. His style illuminates, it does not blind. In his autobiography, Speak, Memory, part of which is included in the present volume, he writes...
...beaten so badly as to make thoroughgoing internal overhaul unavoidable. The Republicans did not win easily or widely enough to be comfortable in victory. George Wallace was deflated, but not totally demolished. Thus the outlook is for more turbulence, at least until the electorate gets a chance to speak more unequivocally...
...first Vice President, John Adams, once compared himself to "a mere Doge of Venice." Thomas Marshall, the 28th, said that "the Vice President is like a man in a cataleptic state: He cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." That classic view of the office has changed drastically, partly because the chief executive's job has become so burdensome that genuine help from the Vice President might be highly useful, but more obviously, because John Kennedy's assassination has dramatized the fact that...
...upset veteran Senator Ernest H. Gruening in a tough primary battle. Gruening's angry ensuing write-in campaign and a vigorous challenge from Republican Opponent Elmer E. Rasmuson made the general election a cliffhanger, but now Gravel, onetime speaker of the Alaska house, will have a chance to speak for his state in the Senate...
...conference-table warfare, the Communist diplomats sought to exacerbate the tensions between the U.S. and Saigon. Brushing aside the our-side-your-side formula, Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, stressed in Paris that the new talks will encompass "four delegations-independent delegations with the right to speak." Thuy's public elevation of the N.L.F. to an independent status would, of course, make it even harder for President Thieu to send representatives to Paris. At the same time, Thuy twitted the U.S. for South Viet Nam's unwillingness to join the conference. "As for the attitude...