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...stories. One song began, “Brother did time, mother did time, uncle did time, now it’s my turn.” Despite his commitment to remaining “neutral”in these projects—which blend lyric poetry with documentary and biography??Armitage conceives of them as acts of artistic and social generosity. “A lot of people that we worked with have never had anything given to them,” Armitage says, “so for somebody to write a poem for them, taking into...
...been to [Le Corbusier’s] Villa La Roche in France in the 1970s and loved it like few other buildings in my life, but I knew nothing about the man. And when I began to get to know Le Corbusier—in writing his biography??I found that I knew even less about him a few months after I started than when I began. It was like facing the wall of a Swiss bank vault. Fortunately, I then had access to his letters, and a human being began to come alive for me. Going back...
...next few weeks. Eventually, all of the University’s library books digitized as part of the Google Books Library Project will be made directly accessible through links in the online HOLLIS system. For instance, a student looking for the 1850 book “Antitrinitarian Biography?? by Robert Wallace, a three-volume tome on Unitarianism, can get to it simply by clicking the “Internet Link” in its HOLLIS record rather than hot-footing it over to the Andover Theological Library. “The books will be available instantaneously, seven days...
...senior social studies concentrators, this time comes around the second week of April. After three weeks of post-thesis bliss, we are faced with a harsh truth: In order to collect our much-awaited thesis comments, we have to turn in an “intellectual biography?? that melds all of our social studies coursework into a coherent plan of study...
...petty tyranny of the Undergraduate Council.Reading Rousseau’s autobiographical “Confessions” was a long, hard slog, but the hours spent reading “Restless Genius” simply disappeared like a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. Here we have a good biography??a National Book Award finalist, no less—on a fascinating subject. Those who have a passing acquaintance with his life story should refresh their memory, and those who do not should get acquainted. —Staff writer Joseph T. Scarry can be reached at scarry@fas.harvard.edu...