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...does seem to reflect her mother's absorbtion. "I'm really just frantic trying to prepare papers for speeches I have to give," she told The Crimson in response to its interview request. She received world-wide acclaim for her book, and she spends her days lecturing and writing. And in 1978 Deane Lord called her "more of an impressive scholar than...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Sissela Bok: In No One's Shadow | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...Total education is the thing I hope students are looking at." John P. Reardon '60, director of athletics, said, arguing that if Harvard squads seek national acclaim, "it's not going to work out very well for us." If squads excel within their own leagues. Reardon said, they can gain national publicity without having to compete directly against collegiate powerhouses...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Athletes, Alumni Discuss Sports At Harvard | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

...attitudes and speech patterns. His urban Jews would be out of place in Addis Ababa. Ironically, fame made Roth himself vulnerable to distortion and caricature by the heightened realists who turn successes into celebrities. To be regarded as the thinking man's Woody Allen is the sort of acclaim he can live without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Million-Dollar Misunderstanding | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...Whittaker?)'s 12 closest friends were brutally murdered. What made her think Friday the 13th, 1981, would be any different?" The title unfolds: "FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH--PART TWO." I felt like I was 20,000 leagues beneath the Charles. Not only does this movie have the gall to acclaim itself as a total rehash of an awful, misogynist film that was the epitome of cinema merde, but the trailer shows us every murder in the new version--in order--and then asks us to come see it anyway. To wit: A girl stands in front of a window. A large...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Horror, The Horror | 5/1/1981 | See Source »

...critical and commercial acclaim that greeted Kinflicks (1976) subjected Novelist Lisa Alther, 36, to just that question. The answer: She does pretty much the same thing over again, except that she does more of it and better. Kinflicks followed a single heroine from her Tennessee upbringing through a series of wacky encounters up North with the countercultures of the '60s. Original Sins quintuples its predecessor, offering five main characters, all Southerners, who try to grow up in a region and a country that are changing even faster than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beating the Sophomore Jinx | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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