Word: vif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autobiography. A Prelude is the first installment. As readers of The New Yorker found when A Prelude ran this spring, Wilson's memoirs have no narrative line, consist mainly of a string of entries from a journal he began keeping in 1914 "to catch sur le vif things that struck me as significant or interesting." Epigrams, verbal preenings, a lexicon of slang, fugitive thoughts, reading lists, poems, stories-all are spread out like so many glinting shards of experience reclaimed from the time when both he and the century were young...