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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crocodile Tears. First published as a book in 1938, and the first of Nabokov's Russian-language novels to be translated into English (by his 25-year-old son Dmitri), Invitation to a Beheading will offer innumerable meanings to readers-or no meaning at all. But the 20th century...
Somehow, despite the dazzling dream dance of ironies, despite the poignant musings of the prisoner, the book is disappointing. Compared with the author's superior novels, it is only a kind of detour de force. It may be that, unlike Kafka, Nabokov sacrificed horror to hallucination -or that the...
Writes Historian Mattingly at the end of his clear and perceptive account: "Historians agree that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was one of the Decisive Battles of the World, but there is much less agreement as to what it decided." Certainly not the war between Spain and England; that...
What a Federal aid program would mean to the educational standards, "no one is wise enough to foresee." For instance, until a few years ago, certain social science courses might have been forced on the students, if the government had been in control. Today, advanced math and science courses could...
The report attacks what it calls "the cloudy meaning and extensive scope" of the affidavit, but insists that Harvard should not participate even if these provisions are clarified.