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Subject:	RE: [NABOKV-L] Kalikakov & Tornikovski
Date:	Thu, 4 Jul 2013 19:18:51 +0000
From:	Fet, Victor <fet@marshall.edu>
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

A more direct source of Kalikakov name could be the famous eugenic (dysgenic) 1912 study The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness by the American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kallikak_Family The name Kallikak is a pseudonym coined by Goddard from the Greek words καλός (kallos) meaning beautiful and κακός (kakos) meaning bad.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kallikak_Family#cite_note-1> It is possible of course that VN coined the same name without knowing Goddard's book.

 Victor Fet