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Born in East Nigeria in 1930, Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart, has sold more then 8 million copies. He has authored or edited more than 18 books...
...fight was the final fissure for a club whose membership had been growing apart from the graduate board and alumni who essentially subsidized them...
...three years. More than being awed by his remarkable intelligence, people who meet him immediately like him. He is one of those rare people who are unconditionally nice. I once took a standardized grad school test with him. In the middle of the test, his question booklet fell apart and he discovered that it was missing several pages. Due to the incompetence of the proctor, John lost some time and a lot of nerves. Anyone else would have cursed and reported the trouble to the testing agency; but after the test, John helped the proctor move furniture to another room...
...Apart from the quality of the food served in the dining halls and the skewed age distribution of the student body, Harvard during my first year was not very different from what it had been like before Pearl Harbor...
...comments [LETTERS, May 13] that the subtext of the relationship of characters played by Heston and Stephen Boyd in the film Ben-Hur was a homosexual one. Without meaning to, of course, Heston utterly confirms Vidal's assertion that director William Wyler told Vidal that Heston would "fall apart" if he knew about the homosexual subtext they conspired to feed Boyd behind Heston's back. All this behind-the-camera intrigue is rendered moot, however, if you just watch the scene. You can see Boyd playing that he is in love. It's perfectly clear. The funniest thing about Heston...