An Index to Strong Opinions
by John DeMoss
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Ullstein, 188
“Ultima Thule,” 91
Ulysses, 22, 55-56, 57, 70-72, 85, 90, 102-103, 151
Undiscovered Country, The, 53
Updike, John, 57, 125, 146, 159, 298, 313
Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York, 218
“Ursus,” 291
US, USA, United States, 48, 50, 133, 149, 198, 273, 292
USSR (see also Soviet Russia), 50
Ustinov, Peter, 170
Utah, 317

Vaccinium, 324
Vadim, Roger, 162
Valais, 199, 289, 332
Valley View Court, 316
Van (see Veen, Van)
Van Bock, 73
Vanessa atalanta, 170
Vanity Hall, 67
vanity (“All is Vanity”), 193
Vanya, 234
Vatican Museum, 169
Vaud, 289
Veen, Van, 110, 120-123, 126-127, 129, 143, 185, 288, 289
Veens, The, 310
Venezuela, 327
Vengerov, Zinaida, 104
Venice, 169
Véra (see Nabokov, Véra)
Verlaine, 43, 129
Vermont, 254
Verne, Jules, 43
Verona, Prince of, 188
Véry’s, 236
Verzhbolovo-Eydtkuhnen, 202
“Vesna v Fial’te,” 289
Vevey, 110
Victor, Editions, 97
Victorians, 81
Vietnam, 101
Viking, 267n
Villa Venus, 310
Villeneuve, 60
Vilno, 136
violence, 133
Visible Nature, 153
Virgil, 258
“Vladimir Nabokov on his Life and Work,” 82n
Vogue, 82n, 153, 197
Voices of Revolution, 312
von der Osten-Sacken, Eleonor, 188
von Korff, Wilhelm Carl, 188
von Sternberg, Josef, 163
von Waldburg, 188
Voyages, 262
Voznesenski, Andrey, 126
Vozrozhdenie, 227
Vronski, Vronsky, 129, 286
Vrubel, 170
Vulpecula, 282
Vyra, 159

Wagoner, David, 300
wagons-lit, 201-202
Wain, John, 246
“Waiting for Ada,” 298
walking, 56, 204
Walpole, 258
Waltz Invention, The, 80
War and Peace, 148
War, Civil, 132
wars, Napoleonic, 236
Washington, D.C., 273
We, 65, 164
Webster, 79, 251, 253, 258, 308
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 1970, 178
weeping cedar, 55
Weil, Irwin, 293
Wellek, René, 240
Wellesley College, 5, 132, 286, 292
Wells, H. G., 42, 103-104, 127, 139, 175
“Welsh Working-Upperclass Rehabilitation,” 113
West End Avenue, 290
Western Europe, 290
Wetzsteon, Ross, 294
“What Vladimir Nabokov Thinks of his Work,” 82n
White Catharine, 99
White Russian, 86, 96
Whites

Bath, 330
Byrony, 332
Green-Veined, 60, 332
Mann’s, 60
Small, 60

contemporary, 102
“second rate,” 54
“serious,” 147
Soviet (see Soviet writers)