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Alain Gowing, a graduate student in Latin Literature at the University of London, is taking an introductory Greek course and loves it. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Gowing taught Latin for a while at the Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., and is brushing up on his Greek to fulfill requirements for a master's degree...
...Year. (The National League's top rookie that year turned out to be quite a player himself: Tom Seaver.) Two seasons later, Carew stole home seven times, tying the major league record. His manager was Billy Martin, now the godfather of Carew's older daughter, Charryse. "I taught him how to steal home," Martin says. "That's all I ever taught him. As for hitting, he knew how to do that all by himself." Martin adds: "And he could bunt .330 if he tried...
...asking for approval. The cat is simply treating the human family as it does its own offspring. "Here's a goodie!" the cat is saying. "Chase it!" (if it is half-dead). "Taste it!" That is the basic training by which the young cat is taught to kill. It takes remarkable self-discipline for the mother not to finish off and devour the captured creature...
...mine." It was the mind of an exile imprisoned in memories of a culture swept away by revolution and war. Born April 23, 1899, into an intellectual, upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father, a distinguished liberal jurist during the final reactionary years of imperial Russia, set an example of scholarship and courage...
...Jewish industrialist from St. Petersburg who had also fled the revolution. A son, Dmitri, now an opera singer in Europe, was born in 1934. Five years later, the family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as American as April in Arizona." He taught at Wellesley and Cor nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita in 1958, Nabokov be came an unpronounceable household...