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...Steven Millhauser? He is an American writer. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is the author of a recent paean to the short story. Drawing an analogy to William Blake??s “world in a grain of sand,” he writes in a New York Times essay that “the short story concentrates on its grain of sand, in the fierce belief that there—right there, in the palm of its hand—lies the universe…In that single grain of sand lies the beach that...
While some might say the social importance of a weekly sitcom is limited. M*A*S*H earned a cult prominence and then a social significance that guaranteed it more than a sitcom’s respect. Colonel Blake??s sad departure, Trapper’s hasty exit, and Radar’s return to Otumwa, Iowa prompted mourning and drunken reflection from avid viewers nationwide. M*A*S*H’s final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying...
...athletic crumbling motion that just not everyone can master at first. It’s not for the faint of wrist. Another very wise man and avid tennis athlete—though he strongly denies rumors that he can hold his own against former Harvard tennis great James Blake??our very own dean Benedict H. Gross ’71, keeps a box on hand in University Hall to feed the body and the mind. “There’s nothing better than a good matza with butter and salt,” the Dean said...
...emblematic moment from Tracy Chevalier’s latest novel “Burning Bright,” two children read together the richly indeterminate opening lines to William Blake??s poem “The Tyger”: “Tyger tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”“What’s ‘symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel...
...contracted a virus which left one side of his face paralyzed, and lost his father to cancer. Other than being forced to shave his snazzy dreds, Blake made it through these obstacles surprisingly unscathed. “James has a particular way of responding to a challenge” Blake??s former coach and current Harvard Tennis coach, David R. Fish ’72 says. “He has been through adversity and gained perspective...and now knows what he has to do to get to the top of the game.” Announcing...