Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Some of last year's Bicentennial spirit, a startling extravagance of good feeling after so much bad, has spilled over into the 201st birthday. Wellesley, Mass., an expensive suburb of Boston, had such an unexpectedly good time with itself last year that it decided to devote this entire summer to community dances, concerts and other parties. The town's weekly newspaper editorialized: "This is the summer to find out what a home town is all about." Last year's tall ships are scattered around the world now, but on the weekend of the Fourth, New York will have an armada...
...nurtured his subject: the Cambridge University days when Nabokov devoted most of his time to sports and writing Russian poetry; the vigor of exile literature in prewar Europe; dispersal of emigre energies and talents after the war began. Nabokov's love affair with America, his teaching experiences at Wellesley and Cornell, and his success with Lolita are covered in more detail than most readers may care to absorb. But Nabokov's friendship and celebrated squabble with Edmund Wilson are sensitively yet amusingly rendered...
...Harvard he at least learned about them his first year. Early in his junior year he was still naive about people's feelings. One day at breakfast he was getting to know a woman in the House whom he had not met before. He found out she was from Wellesley, and was at Harvard for one semester to take some special couses...
...said, "You got to Wellesley, right...