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...haters delight in announcing that a Siamese will not faithfully drool in your lap for a kind word like a Labrador retriever. Even the most fervid owners of felines can be surprised-almost to cardiac arrest-by their pets' peculiarities. Your cat lurks in the dark attic just when you thought you were alone. As a form of endearment, he may jump on your shoulder from the top of the refrigerator. He may refuse all food until you cook the same kind of bacon-and-cheese sandwich he enjoyed a week ago. He will, in the meantime, deposit...
...Alexander the Not Yet Great and Alexander the Great held the spotlight and spurred the action. In Funeral Games it is his absence that motivates events. Yet the novelist-historian has done a fine job in focusing nearly half a century of chaos. Her prose, as usual, has an Attic clarity; her research is sound and her imagined scenes cenotaphs. Lacking the actual remains, they convey the unparalleled aura of Alexander and his time...
...Light in the Attic, Silverstein
...whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic in Connecticut and sent to Edouard Stackpole, whaling expert and curator of the Peter Foulger Museum in Nantucket. Here are excerpts from Nickerson 's chronicle...
Stratton, who was in Cambridge last week, says that after making her fortuitous excursion to the attic, she returned to Harvard in search of an adviser but could find no frontier historian in the History Department. She finally appealed to Frank Freidel. Warren Professor of American History, inquiring if he would be free for an independent study. Sorry, no time, he told her. "Then I told him I had 800 memoirs from Kansas pioneers that no one had ever seen before." He found time. Working closely with Freidel and Michael F. Jimenez, a graduate student in history. Stratton produced...