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...applaud your choice of Nancy Brinker. In 1977 my mother died after losing a long battle with breast cancer. I had just celebrated my 12th birthday and thought my life was over. Dealing with the loss of my mother was overwhelming. Brinker has immeasurably helped those who suffer from the disease and the friends and family who suffer along with them. Andrew Halley, LAYTON, UTAH...
...Internet Movie Database tells us that Oliveira has two films in production. If he keeps going, and his vigor today suggests that's not a problem, he will eclipse Leni Riefenstahl (who released her last movie on her 100th birthday in 2002) as the world's oldest cineaste. And one of the most vital. "Vive le cinema!" he exclaimed before striding offstage. Oliveira is living proof that cinema is a game old men can play with agility and ageless grace...
...Samuel Gilman, Class of 1811, had written his most famous hymn in honor of his alma mater’s 200th birthday. “Fair Harvard” would eventually become the melody sung at commencement and the centerpiece of a large and impressive collection of Harvard-inspired tunes. But, in 1994, 136 years after his death, the most famous lyrical change came to pass on Gilman’s original work. Fair Harvard now had “daughters” as well as “sons” and for then-President Neil L. Rudenstine...
John Milton turns 400 this year, but of course the birthday doesn't matter unless Milton does. Three new scholarly biographies and an exhibit at the New York Public Library may comfort the faithful, but they won't convert anyone who hasn't already caught the Milton bug. Nigel Smith wants to engender a fandemic. In a new book, Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare?, he sets out to convince "as general a public as possible" that Milton is the "more salient and important" of these literary giants...
...applaud your choice of Nancy Brinker. In 1977 my mother died after losing a long battle with breast cancer. I had just celebrated my 12th birthday and thought my life was over. I wanted to do something to help find a cure, but dealing with the loss of my mother was overwhelming. Brinker has immeasurably helped those who suffer from the disease and the friends and family who suffer along with them. Andrew Halley, LAYTON, UTAH...