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Fw: Fw: Fw: bravura passage has Nabokov speaking very much in his
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From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
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> Also, much as I appreciate
> > Nabokov's personal and
> > painful experience with the Soviet Union, I've
> > always found it unsettling
> > the way he just shrugs off Joe McCarthy. I'm not
> > naive about the reality of
> > spying and Communist infiltration during the 1950s,
> > but there seems to me
> > little question that there really was a McCarthy
> > Era, and that the fascistic
> > fathead at its center did reckless damage.
> > >
> > > Rodney Welch
> > > Columbia, SC
>
> I was just reading today and was somewhat surprised to
> find out that another leading light, JFK, was rather
> compromised regarding McCarthy, due to the latter's
> connections with JFK's father, and failed to turn up
> to take part in a Senate vote (I think it was the
> Senate) to oust him.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (30
lines) ------------------
> Also, much as I appreciate
> > Nabokov's personal and
> > painful experience with the Soviet Union, I've
> > always found it unsettling
> > the way he just shrugs off Joe McCarthy. I'm not
> > naive about the reality of
> > spying and Communist infiltration during the 1950s,
> > but there seems to me
> > little question that there really was a McCarthy
> > Era, and that the fascistic
> > fathead at its center did reckless damage.
> > >
> > > Rodney Welch
> > > Columbia, SC
>
> I was just reading today and was somewhat surprised to
> find out that another leading light, JFK, was rather
> compromised regarding McCarthy, due to the latter's
> connections with JFK's father, and failed to turn up
> to take part in a Senate vote (I think it was the
> Senate) to oust him.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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