NP but Cornell and VN.

[DuBois, John E.]

It is true.

"Bader Ginsburg's undergraduate education at Cornell from 1950-54 served as a strong foundation for her subsequent legal education and notable career.
In public talks, the associate justice credited two influential Cornell professors: Robert Cushman, professor of government, and Vladimir Nabokov, then a professor of European literature.
Noted for her precisely worded decisions on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg acknowledged Nabokov's influence on her own writing. "He was a man in love with the sound of words," she once said, as he taught her the importance of choosing the correct word and word order.
Nabokov's first languages were French and Russian; English was his third. "He spoke about what he liked in the English language," she said once in a talk. "If a speaker wants to say 'white horse,' you say 'white horse' in the English language.
"You see the white before horse," she said, "so when you get to the horse, it is already white. In French you say, 'cheval blanc,' but you think brown horse first and you have to convert it.""
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/09/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-54-dies


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Somebody on Twitter. Hope this is true:
"Today I found out that RBG credited her Cornell University lit prof with
influencing her style of judicial opinion. You know who that prof was?
Vladimir Nabokov."
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