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...dreamy about Nabokov. He seems to have been an astonishingly disciplined, highly competitive, hopeless overperformer. His cousin Nicolas, a composer living in Hamburg, remembers Vladimir at 18 as tall, handsome and insufferably skillful at nearly everything?though he always smelled slightly of the ether he used to kill the specimen butterflies he caught. When Vladimir was enrolled in a liberal school expressly chosen by his father, he resented a master's suggestion that the Nabokov coachman deposit him several blocks away so he could arrive at class democratically afoot. A more galling comment, though, came from teachers who accused...
...pealing, especially to that group which may be loosely referred to as "grownup," is its easy (too easy) explanation of current woes and rages that many Americans find painful and inexplicable. What makes it potentially baneful is that, by putting all the vociferous, outrageous young in one conveniently labeled specimen bottle, Feuer encourages his read ers in the smug, seductive notion that all their criticisms of today's world should be dismissed...
...livers and kidneys of two of the monkeys which received injections yielded specimen of the virus even after the animals had died. Melendez termed this quite an accomplishment, since the type of virus involved usually dies quickly...
...Virus Specimen...
...theory to preserve the "old wooden covered bridge," in fact as an insurance premium against damage suits and as a bait to hook the nibbling "historical element." In a way, the passage describes not the preservation of a covered bridge, but rather the preservation of a far rarer ristorical specimen: a center of Yankee parsimony...