Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laughter foreshadows the mature Nabokov's brilliance and, compared with a lot of current fiction, is well worth reading. But what might have been searing in the book is somehow merely slick or shallowly cynical. Nabokov's gift for the vivid image is already sparkling, but his characters slip into caricatures. A tendency the later Nabokov has largely suppressed, of confusing imagination with prestidigitation, gets the better of him here, and the deftly manipulated mirror he holds up to nature reflects not life but simply more mirrors...
...program involves arranging the course material in topics and illustrating it with anecdotes from original sources. The topics, such as "the growth and purpose of political parties," will be set up to dovetail with the required "Problems of Democracy" course for seniors. The anecdotes will make the material more vivid for the students, Martin said...
...first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales in this collection-has honest intentions: to make vivid the author's conviction that the face of the world is a mask, and that the real hoax is on those...
...greater the poet, the bigger his world. By this standard, France's Saint-John Perse was a giant from the beginning, for he wrote of the oceans, the deserts, the globe, and of a timeless Man. His form was neither verse nor prose, and to many the vivid imagery was enigmatic, possibly cryptic, as in Seamarks...
...referent in his so-called 'formation from what he is now," there who remember and contra sledge conservatism with his position among the liberalization Republican Party. Accordingly other member of Signet where Lodge when he was President organization in 1923, he was a cool man, although vivid and minded. There was every real he should have lived a muted literally...