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...emotions that it almost meant nothing at all. Since the love we distill for each beloved conforms to such a specific, rarefied recipe ... you really needed as many different words for the feeling as there were people whom you cared for in your life.' --PAGE 240 OF the post- birthday world BY LIONEL SHRIVER...
Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein also gave a remarkable interview in which he was more revealing than he had ever been about his religious sensibility. It was with George Sylvester Viereck, who had been born in Germany, moved to America as a child and then spent his life writing gaudily erotic poetry, interviewing great men and expressing his complex love for his fatherland. Einstein assumed Viereck was Jewish. In fact, Viereck proudly traced his lineage to the family of the Kaiser, and he would later become a Nazi sympathizer who was jailed in America during World...
...turns violent and moving, the book includes tales of a hapless jobbing magician who can't help conjuring up severed rabbits' heads at birthday parties, a dithering hard-boiled hit man, and the goddess Venus working as an office temp. Thrown into the mix alongside a clutch of tragically distant fathers is a string of treacherous girlfriends - one of whom demands her beau deliver her the heart of his mother, to prove his love...
...term presidency--the head of the Soprano crime family is thinking about his legacy. (Fair warning: here's where the spoilers begin.) In the first new episode, Tony, still feeling the effects of having been gut-shot by dementia-addled Uncle Junior, is celebrating his 47th birthday. Later there's a reference to one of his Mob peers, who died at 47. No one connects the dots explicitly, but the parallel is not lost on Tony. "My estimate, historically, 80% of the time, [a Mob boss] ends up in the can," he tells his brother-in-law Bobby (Steven...
...disciplines and Harvard’s traditionally independent schools.“We’ve made as much progress, certainly more progress, than I would have hoped for on the basis of what people told me when I came in,” Bok, who celebrates his 77th birthday today, said. “I do not have any significant frustrations where I feel we’ve not been able to make progress on things that I hoped to do.”Even though he has maintained a low profile on campus and often leaves the office...