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...isn’t L.A. gangs engaged in epic shoot-outs or Hollywood starlets prancing extravagantly down Rodeo Drive or high-powered tech start-ups revolutionizing Silicon Valley. They are the abandoned, the alienated, the forgotten peoples of the West Coast. The California we see in the works of author Marisa L. Silver ’82 depicts these people.For Silver, a filmmaker-turned-writer, it is natural to explore this hidden, lonely side of California. The director of a number of motion pictures, including “Old Enough,” “Vital Signs...
...worded thoughts almost make one forget that, rather than a fully developed character, he is for Docx more of a manifestation of greed.These characters, however barely sufficient as portraits by themselves, contribute to the backdrop of Docx’s great portrait of St. Petersburg, a city that the author manages, in a passage here and a line there, to sketch with wonderful dexterity. In just a sentence Docx communicates the city’s decay and darkness: “A brutalized dog whimpered in the shadow of the crumbling courtyard. Six P.M now in Petersburg...
...institutions can have the courage and wisdom to undertake these self-investigations of their pasts.”THE LEGACY OF SLAVERYWhether Harvard has an obligation to formally apologize for its past ties to slavery is a matter of debate. Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70, the author of “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience,” said that an investigation into Harvard’s past could not hurt, but that reparations are not warranted. “Harvard is less complicit” than other colleges, Schlesinger said, noting that much...
...record industry is in terrible trouble,” says Alec Foege, author of “Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio.” “If anything, the influence of labels in the fragmented media landscape that we’re experiencing now is declining...
...Sexual content, racy language, obscene language are definitely a major part of his career as an author,” Scanlan said...