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...Maverick Mogul TIME's Feb. 16, 1968, cover story profiled John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential economist, diplomat and prolific author who died in April...
...struggling with. The show is ultimately really about redemption, and maybe more fundamentally, how does one lead a life.”These are issues that can be traced back to classes he took as an undergraduate, Cuse says. He took a seminar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee professor of social ethics Robert Coles ’50, whom Cuse says became a mentor and a big influence.One of the authors who Coles assigned for his class was Walker Percy, whose writing influenced Cuse. As an homage to Percy, Cuse had “Lost?...
...undergraduate career, I never really took notice of what was right with it. But that all changed one day, when I began to realize just how amazing some of my experiences here have been. I remembered working on a research paper for my history class and realizing that the author of my primary source lived on campus. I remembered opening the Boston Globe and seeing the face of one of my closest friends on the cover of the living section. And I remembered a casual conversation with my roommate about the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie/Jennifer Aniston love triangle morphing into...
...could say that well-known author Melissa E. Scott ’81 fell into science-fiction writing.Scott first encountered the genre after a gym-class incident that left her with a broken arm and a gig as a library monitor. “I’m not the world’s most coordinated human being,” she says. A precocious child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott...
...make meals together a priority. The enemies here are laziness and leniency: "We're talking about a contemporary style of parenting, particularly in the middle class, that is overindulgent of children," argues William Doherty, a professor of family social science at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and author of The Intentional Family: Simple Rituals to Strengthen Family Ties. "It treats them as customers who need to be pleased." By that, he means the willingness of parents to let dinner be an individual improvisation--no routine, no rules, leave the television on, everyone eats what they want, teenagers take...