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Re: Query: other contemporary literary allusions in PF?
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FROM: Don Johnson
Just an addendum to Mike Donohue's ref to Charles Van Doren.Van Doren's
"winning" streak ran from 28 Nov 1956 to 11 March 1957, He made the cover of
TIME magazine 19 Feb. 1957--some 12 years before VN. There was a movie made
about the scandal several years ago.
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Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> Two (tiny) things come to mind: an indirect reference to Mark Van Doren
> (1894-1972) and a direct one to Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)--both living
> poets, though quite over the hill, at the time of Pale Fire's
> publication.
>
> p. 244: "those gentlemen who cheat on television quizzes" refers to Van
> Doren's son Charles who was exposed as cheating on "Twenty-One" in the
> late
> 50s.
>
> 275: "Asked about the Soviet exhibition at the New York Coliseum, Carl
> Sandburg, a poet, replied, and I quote: 'They make their appeal on the
> highest of intellectual levels.'"
>
> Mike Donohue
>
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Just an addendum to Mike Donohue's ref to Charles Van Doren.Van Doren's
"winning" streak ran from 28 Nov 1956 to 11 March 1957, He made the cover of
TIME magazine 19 Feb. 1957--some 12 years before VN. There was a movie made
about the scandal several years ago.
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Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> Two (tiny) things come to mind: an indirect reference to Mark Van Doren
> (1894-1972) and a direct one to Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)--both living
> poets, though quite over the hill, at the time of Pale Fire's
> publication.
>
> p. 244: "those gentlemen who cheat on television quizzes" refers to Van
> Doren's son Charles who was exposed as cheating on "Twenty-One" in the
> late
> 50s.
>
> 275: "Asked about the Soviet exhibition at the New York Coliseum, Carl
> Sandburg, a poet, replied, and I quote: 'They make their appeal on the
> highest of intellectual levels.'"
>
> Mike Donohue
>
> Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
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