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...full of happiness she comes near to bloating-and there are no others to share it with. On the magic gown also see that men leave their wives, boys forsake girls, fathers daughters, daughters husbands, families leave German Shepherds for dead on garbage heaps, the background turns Tulsa and Ada black and stormy with rushing gusts of leaves and swarms of swallows and locusts perch on your nose. Through magic arts we absorb the unfair burdens of our lovers' dreams...
Controversy over this year's awards concerns two books which were not mentioned, Neither Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint nor Vladimir Nabokov's Ada were nominated, although both books received great critical attention...
Married. The Rev. Daniel McLellan, 53, Denver-born Roman Catholic missionary priest, who while on assignment in Peru in 1960 pioneered a savings and loan association, Mutual El Pueblo, for impoverished peasants, then built it into a $14 million concern; and Ada Chirinos, 28, his Peruvian secretary; in a civil ceremony; in Lima. McLellan's resignation from the priesthood was sanctioned by the Pope, and he will stay on as president of the savings and loan association, now Peru's largest...
...Ada, Nabokov...
...Ada, Nabokov...