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...Nabokov experts. Contributing Editor Mark Vishniak, a member of the magazine's Russian Desk since 1946, knew Nabokov's father in Petrograd. The families fled the country together in 1919. Later, in Paris, Vishniak edited a Russian quarterly that published young Vladimir's early novels. Researcher Vera Kovarsky, who also escaped to France with her family during the Russian Revolution, remembers Nabokov from literary evenings in Paris. Contributing Editor Alwyn Lee met the novelist in 1958, when he wrote TIME'S highly laudatory review of Lolita...
...decades between Cambridge and World War II, three pieces of great good fortune befell Nabokov. In 1925 he married Vera Evseena Slonim, the slim and beautiful daughter of a Jewish St. Petersburg industrialist also ruined by the revolution. In 1934 they had a son, Dmitri, an only child now studying opera in Italy. In 1939, having moved from Berlin to Paris to avoid the Nazis, Nabokov quite by chance received and accepted a proposal to lecture on Slavic languages at Stanford...
...movie while his mind was on something else-probably quitting time. Katharine Ross, Dustin Hoffman's sidekick in The Graduate, plays Duke's daughter with an understandable lack of enthusiam. A few more parts like this and she'll be about as well remembered as Vera Hruba Ralston...
...released. This tactic was endorsed last year by the American Bar Association, which called on the courts to set curfews for certain defendants, to require them to report regularly to court officers and to prohibit them from carrying a weapon or other acts that might bring trouble. The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research group seeking to modernize legal procedures, started a trend away from money bail in Manhattan, is now offering job training and counseling to some of those who are released on their own word...
...last few years, the Ford Foundation has made similar large grants to support criminal justice research centers at Georgetown University, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley and at Davis, and the Vera Institute of Justice in New York...