Razbushevat'sia

[Olga Zaslavsky]

Dear Prof. Rifkin,
I, in turn, have failed to see the Nabokovian pun in raz -- bush -- evat'sya right away, and now I can see that this title has more charm than sarcasm.
Best,
Olga Z.



> Dear SEELANGers:
> 
> What I meant by my reference to Turgenev would have best been accomplished
> by a wink and a nudge in connection with what for me was a totally new use
> of a verb.  I¹d never seen this verb used before in a context in which there
> was a reference to the former president of the US and I thought it was a
> very clever pun on the part of the article¹s author.  This is what made me
> think of Turgenev.
> 
> Best regards to all,
> 
> BR
> 
> 
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