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Harvard Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said the College’s admissions office takes such concerns into account when selecting a class...
...than political." But Leaming doesn't bolster her claims by referring to the commonplace notion that the Kennedy presidency was the first shaped by television, an idea that would have underscored the importance of his wife's mastery of the language of images. Instead, Leaming's focus on detailed accounts of the various (mostly foreign policy) challenges Kennedy faced tends to emphasize how remote Jackie was from the brass-tacks process of decision making. However gracefully she intervened in shaping the public face of his Administration, her efforts, even by Leaming's highly sympathetic account, were intermittent at best...
...their grandkids, according to a survey for American Demographics by Zogby International, a polling firm. In fact, "grandtravel" made up 21% of all trips with children in 2000, reports a Meredith Corp. survey for the Travel Industry of America, up 13% from the previous year. Boomers, Meredith Corp. found, account for 46% of all family travel and spend more on their family vacations than any other group...
...animation audience. Despite voice-overs by the likes of Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Billy Crudup and the marketing might of Miramax, a unit of Disney, it earned $3.5 million in the U.S., compared with the record-smashing $150 million it made in Japan. "Disney didn't take into account that Miyazaki didn't become a giant in Japan overnight," says Helen McCarthy, author of a book on the master animator. "The Japanese audience has grown with him over the years, taken risks with him on themes and styles, all the way from the beginning...
Such a chronological description of Fox’s early years, however, belies the content and structure of her memoir. Borrowed Finery is not a work of autobiography, and those looking for a comprehensive account of Fox’s upbringing will be disappointed. Rather than a coherent and patterned narrative, Borrowed Finery is a smattering of Fox’s memories and experiences, a collection of impressions—of places, of people, of kindnesses and betrayals. Geographical locations replace dates as the signalers of time, with each section of the book bearing simply the name of the place...