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...love has become a familiar theme of contemporary fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer made it the title of a book of short stories; John Cheever, John Updike and Saul Bellow have explored its surprising depths and passions. In their wake Philanthropist Astor, now in her early 80s, slyly subtitles her fourth and best book "a period piece." Actually, it concerns two periods: the year before the Crash and the time after middle age. She is obviously an expert on both. With witty understatement and antic plot, she shows a high social stratum at its apogee. Messages are delivered on silver salvers...
Previous holders of the fellowship include former President Gerald Ford, former Secetary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and authors John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, John Updike '54, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Penn Warren...
...Politics of Literary Criticism and What We Read: Mary Anne Ferguson, Cheever House, Wellesley...
Rooting for the Sox is a state of mind, a masochistic commitment to late-summer agony. Even so, John Cheever once surmised that all literate people are Red Sox fans. If you're not big on pain, you can still enjoy the sport for its own particular beauty, and catch one of the best hitters of our time--Wade Boggs, owner of a .346 lifetime average--in his prime...
Rooting for the Sox is a state of mind, a masochistic commitment to late-summer agony. Even so, John Cheever once surmised that all literate people are Red Sox fans. If you're not big on pain, you can still enjoy the sport for its own particular beauty, and catch one of the best hitters of our time--Wade Boggs, owner of a .346 lifetime average--in his prime...