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...reports that our esteemed President has won the fourth annual American History book prize for her 6th book?? "The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil...
...most inaccessible.” “Not that this should stop the well-intentioned, naive reader from making an attempt or giving up actual money for the chance to [read it],” Grzecki read aloud. The audience laughed along as Grzecki read the book??s surreal second chapter, which featured the Keezer Cat—who offers to buy Alice’s skin— and a mustachioed Humpty Dumpty. John B. Owen ’10, another Lampoon officer, then took over and read what he claimed was a historical document...
...monetary help from a wealthy father and literary advice from a hired reporter, as “Why England Slept,” which became a modest bestseller. Henry Luce, the founder of Life magazine, described the difficulty of separating Kennedy the man from Kennedy the scholar in the book??s preface: “For it is Kennedy, after all, who launched the Peace Corps, challenged his country to land a man on the moon, and stirred countless young Americans with his optimistic talk of a New Frontier,” it read. “Destiny...
...care. She decides not to go to college so that she can stay and be “Termite’s mother, one of them.” Termite can only parrot words, not speak them, and has never cried, but his section of the book??s narration is imbued with an otherworldly clairvoyance.The most interesting perspective is that of Lark and Termite’s aunt, Nonie, who has effectively raised them. Nonie has taken pains to cover over the memory of her sister, a woman whom it seems was always more beloved than...
...charismatic and self-assured performance on “Lie to Me,” “Telling Lies” may, by comparison, seem less impressive and definitive. The fact that Ekman’s theories are often supported by fictional examples also weakens the book??s quality as a guide to catching liars in real life. In the first chapter, Ekman uses an incident between characters Jerry and Ruth in the John Updike ’54 novel, “Marry Me,” to illustrate the importance of concealing strong emotion while...