Word: cheever
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...first great flowering of his career, in the 1950s and '60s, John Cheever was, to all appearances, the crown prince of normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings...
...wasn't entirely surprising to discover, after his death at age 70 in 1982, that for much of his life Cheever was miserable, a petulant, belittling husband; a difficult father; and a severe alcoholic tormented by his secret bisexuality. We learned a lot about this from his journals, 400 pages of lyric abjection published eight years after his death, in which he fears becoming the "lonely boy with no role in life but to peer in at the lighted windows of other people's contentment and vitality." But we get a much fuller and more reliable picture in Blake Bailey...
...five spots. Harvard’s second-place effort was led by sophomore Claire Richardson, whose 17:52.62-time placed her sixth. Classmate Jamie Olson took the next spot at 18:04.97. The win for the nationally ranked No. 7 Tigers was their sixth consecutive capture of the Cheever Memorial Trophy. The win for Princeton ties the Crimson’s 1980-’85 consecutive win streak. “At this point in the game, Princeton’s a really strong team,” women’s captain Kelsey LeBuffe said...
Unlike the typical '60s reminiscence, Mad Men doesn't have a baby-boomer perspective. (Creator Matthew Weiner, 42, was born after the boomer cutoff.) Its sensibility is closer to artifacts of its time like The Apartment or John Cheever's Wasp-character-study stories. In Mad Men, the boomers are a market for Clearasil or the children of the Drapers and their friends, largely unseen and unheard. (In a new episode, Don instructs his grade-school-age daughter how to mix a Tom Collins for guests...
...capacity to work with donors interested in giving gifts across school boundaries. After an employee in the development office who oversaw these gifts retired, he was never replaced, and Rogers, who took office last fall, decided to expand that role by creating an entire team. Roger P. Cheever ‘67, Charles Collier, Joseph F. X. Donovan ‘72, and Shirley A. Peppers will report directly to Rogers in order to “have capacity to work with large donors who may have more than one interest or whose interests that span across school boundaries...