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...well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition's few candid shots...
FemSex also provides a safe, non-judgmental space. Not all of us can bare our souls to the world like Lena Chen ’09, whose blog, “Sex and the Ivy,” has been much-publicized for its candid look at sex at Harvard. Some of us want people to whom to talk who can identify and share, who we know won’t stop liking us for being a little T.M.I. Too often, I get looks in the dining hall for talking loudly about sex. FemSex provides a place for people...
...only now, with the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, do we have a candid, personal portrait of the writer, with little of the Victorian reserve of his memoirs. Most of the nearly 1,000 letters are to his beloved mother, Mary Doyle, beginning in 1867, when he was an 8-year-old boy at a Jesuit boarding school, and continuing until 1920, when Mary died. The book's editors - two Conan Doyle scholars and the author's great-nephew - also provide plenty of background material, rare drawings and photographs, and relevant excerpts from Conan Doyle...
Moments of candid enthusiasm emerged during Thibaudet’s virtuoso performance in this third section, and his energy was contagious. Though Thibaudet was again serene and composed as he returned for a second bow, the bright-eyed Levine betrayed the palpable excitement on the stage...
...boring person? James D. Watson has a piece of advice for you: “Read something. Have some kind of fact which really makes you think.” In a candid talk last night at Memorial Church celebrating his new book, “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science,” Watson—the Nobel Prize winner who, along with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA—addressed his time at Harvard, praised polygamy, poked fun at Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and discussed the state of science...