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...Ada Ryan of the National Right to Life Committee accused Rockefeller of another kind of massacre. "In his quest for population control at any cost," she complained, "he has helped to bring about the destruction of a whole segment of our society: the unborn...
...artificer has written one of his slyest and funniest books. Admirers who sloped off muttering after a struggle with the intricacies of Ada are urged to reopen their hearts. Look at the Harlequins comes in the form of memoirs by the distinguished Russian-born novelist Vadim Vadimych N., a cranky exquisite who laments piteously the high initial cost and outrageous maintenance expense of owning an artistic soul. This gent, at the time of writing, is a formidable old illusion-monger with a high, rounded forehead and the vanity of a borzoi. He was born a prince. Bounced from home...
Bayh is also coming on strong with his countryboy image. Once every six years, the liberal Indiana senator (ranked five points to the left of McGovern by the ADA) comes home with a hard-sell conservative act. In August, the senator called for a well-publicized cut in an administration welfare bill, hardly consistent with any of his prior welfare votes. Bayh also loves to emphasize his rural origins (farm boy from Shirkieville, Inc.) and he has even scored Lugar, a Hoosier native, on his Oxford-Denison education, insisting that a senator with a Purdue education is best for Indiana...
...Ada Comstock took over the presidency, the college embarked on an aggressive building campaign: Briggs Hall was dedicated in 1924; Longfellow Lecture Hall followed in 1930; Byerly Hall in 1932; and finally Cabot Hall...
...most useful revelations of Strong Opinions is of the way Nabokov thinks in images, not words, during the first stage of writing. In his brilliant piece on "Inspiration," he describes how Ada took form from a single inspired, Iyric section that gave tone and texture to the whole book. Writing the book means approximating in the best words available something that already exists in a mental realm from which Nabokov rescues, recreates, excavates it. A subtle relation between levels of possibility--in thought and in vocabulary--participates in the creation of the words that firmly but transparently exist there...