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...When I marvel at a Mozart adagio or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, I simply cannot grasp how each artist accomplished what he did. Human genius amazes because it is a mystery; if science could explain how genius came to be, the wonder would be gone. Nathaniel M. Campbell Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts...
...shares the ACC label with powerhouses Maryland, North Carolina, and Duke, and a home loss to Harvard could leave the NCAA selection committee in doubt if the Eagles are on the bubble come tournament time.But for Harvard, a reeling team in need of confidence, the post-Christmas shocker in Chestnut Hill could right the Crimson’s ship both this year and in the seasons to come. “We have to learn that we’re good and understand that we’re good,” Delaney-Smith said of her young team, which...
...aged Garnett desperately tries to save the disappearing American Chestnut tree, crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean mountain woman, jealously guards a newly arrived coyote family in the forest...
Kingsolver knows something not only about the insatiable craving of desire, but about the inevitable complications that follow when humans pursue it. The sex in “Prodigal Summer” is instinctive and exuberant, whether occurring in an abandoned chestnut log or on a crushed bed of wildflowers...
...distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...