Word: migr
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...sake take notes." So began Literature 311-312 at Cornell in the '50s, Professor Nabokov presiding. Teaching was of necessity Nabokov's livelihood in those pre-Lolita days, and he took to it as he took to all the shifting fortunes of his long émigré life: with energy, flair and an unfailing relish for the ironies of the situation. Somewhere in one of those classes, as Nabokov might have guessed, was at least one future novelist, Thomas Pynchon. Somewhere in his own imagination glimmered at least two future academic portraits, the title character of Pnin...
Nobel Prize goes to émigré Poet Czeslaw Milosz
...familiar to serious students of poetry. Otherwise he is little known outside Poland and the Slavic language department of the University of California at Berkeley. Yet last week Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Chess-wahf Mee-wash), 69, an émigré poet-scholar and naturalized American citizen, won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Milosz, his wife and two sons moved to Berkeley, where the poet joined the faculty of the University of California. Reminiscent of another émigré professor, Vladimir Nabokov, the new laureate has a reputation as a dazzling lecturer...
...prominent Polish émigré" says that Marx "would not believe his eyes" if he saw workers revolting against their Communist government? Marx would have quit even looking at 20th century man's feeble attempts at Communism long ago-after so many Stalins, purges, Gulags, 17th of Junes, Prague springs, Cultural Revolutions, democratic Kampucheas and Berlin Walls. If the "Communists" of Eastern Europe bore even a resemblance to what Marx had intended, I doubt that I and thousands of other G.I.s would need to be in West Germany...