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Always an adventurer, Dmitri Nabokov ’55 accelerated out of Harvard Yard on Commencement Day 50 years ago to embark upon a career studded with a colorful confetti of activity...
...first professional translation. “A long-suffering, occasionally snow-sprinkled copy of the Russian book sometimes lay for days on the seat of my permanently topless MG-TC,” Nabokov writes, referring to his classic roadster. “Father, when he happened upon the car parked on a nearby street, would meticulously record the page to which the book was opened, and confront me in the evening with my lamentable lack of progress...
...world three years later had not yet appeared on the radar. “I was still living in a kind of adolescent haze,” Nabokov writes, “unaware of...the full impact that my father’s presence had here, or would have upon world literature...
...Officers reported to the Kennedy School following a report of two individuals attempting to gain access to the building through a window. Upon locating the night prowlers, the officers searched for wants and warrants. Finding none outstanding, they issued the two perpetrators a no-trespass warning and sent them away...
...yell for help brought police to Peabody Terrace. But, upon arrival, the officers did not locate anyone in need of assistance...