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...some cases these “Old Larry” qualities were desirable. Summers was and still is brilliant. In other cases it was neutral—like the disorganized lab partner that Neff remembers from high school, the Summers of today requires a rule that says you are “never to give Larry the only version of anything” lest it “disappear into the pile...
...nine of those years, as head writer, O’Donnell served as the “brilliant guiding spirits of the show,” as Steve E. Young ’87, a writer who came to “The Late Show,” in 1990 describes...
...Donnell was once married to a woman he describes as a “smart, funny, musically brilliant Sarah Lawrence grad.” But though he says that she always made him laugh and still does, they were simply “temperamentally and emotionally incompatible...
When I think about what I have learned in the past four years, the lessons that come to mind do not involve electronegative chemistry molecules, unstable ancient monarchies or brilliant yet confusing philosophers. I credit my roommates, my friends and my extracurricular activities with teaching me the most important things I learned in college, including the following...
...atmosphere that those on the outside imagine. (None of you considered transferring to that other top-ranked school in New Haven, did you? I didn’t think so.) What does that matter anyway once you have gotten over the initial thrill? It’s not the brilliant faculty, the intellectual renown, the access to limitless academic resources. That wouldn’t draw me here over any other college with Nobel Prize-winning professors. After all, how many of us have actually made contact with more than a few, if that, of these top thinkers...