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...with all that, Vidal has been able to write a dozen novels, as well as find the time and energy to rewrite and republish a few of them. He is now into No. 13, a heavily researched historical novel about Aaron Burr, best known for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel but also the man who dreamed of establishing his own empire in Mexico. Vidal has completed the first draft, doing much of the work at his farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland. (It is an integrated neighborhood: just over the hill, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is preparing a retirement home...
Looking more and more like a cross between Huckleberry Finn and Oliver Barrett III. Hooks Burr made himself right at home on the slippery stuff, having been a prep school hockey star in his day. Barbara Cohn, lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, leapt into Petkevich's arms as Helen Homans Gilbert, first woman overseer of the University, did a leg extend down on the ice and held her position--like a catatonic Cossack...
...inclined can waste a lot of time trying to find them. N-rm-n Ma-ler has written an account of a party at Harvard that sounds something like the one that the Advocate threw last Spring for Mailer in the Lampoon building. The appearance of John Marquand. Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House in a photo feature "Workaday Whirl" may give some people pleasure. And when the face game gets boring, it is always possible to try identifying the buildings--some of the pictures are taken with Widener, the Yard, and various other places as backdrops...
...isolated building. No attempt was made to fit Gund Hall into its setting by relating it to nearby buildings -- and small wonder with neighbors like William James, the Busch Riesinger Museum, the Church of New Jerusalem. Memorial Hall and Burr Lecture Hall. But it at least blocks the view of William James. Also the Busch-Reisinger museum regains some of its distinctiveness by being removed from its confrontation with Harvard's precursor to the World Trade Center...
...Aaron Burr Association