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Perhaps, in your next evaluation of life in the social climes of Freshmandom, you should consult some one with a pulse. Keith Gessen '97 George Sirignano '97 Justin Brennan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First-Years Have Lives Too | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solve It Again, Sam | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solve It Again, Sam | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

This year, it should be a different story. Withsix players who have started at least one gamecoming back, Carril possesses a solid nucleus.Hielscher, senior co-captains Chris Mooney andMike Brennan, and guard Chris Yetman will likelymake the biggest contributions. Unfortunately forPrinceton fans, it won't be enough...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: A Done Deal: Penn | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...finely nuanced book. The biographer is as shrewd and sympathetic in sorting out Larkin's surprisingly energetic sex life as in parsing his poems. Larkin's longest attachment (38 years) was with Monica Jones, a lecturer at Leicester University. About halfway through this affair he took up with Maeve Brennan, a library staff member at Hull, and a few years later he added his secretary, Betty Mackereth. The point was to play one woman off against another, sometimes callously, to keep them all at a certain distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grouch From Hull | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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