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Joking that it was "definitely the first time I've ever read in a church," the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie read before several hundred people Monday night at the First Parish Church of Cambridge...
...much there is to the unknowable and untidy. In their private hours, your parents will imagine you as a wife, a mother, an actress in the movies or at the village playhouse. For myself, I see you married--as my own daughter was married a year ago--in a church ceremony the antipode of the one you were the center of last week...
...weren't entirely wrong. Modernism was an immigrant, and the anxiety that haunted American artists for most of the 50 years the show covers was that of provincialism. In some respects the moderns were less original than the great American figures of the 19th century: John James Audubon, Frederick Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer. You were likely to be running behind the tick of the big clocks in Paris and Berlin whether you were Childe Hassam doing Impressionist streetscapes 30 years after Monet or a New York abstractionist producing ideal geometries in the early 1940s. "We all steal," said Arshile...
...sure were right when you said the Internet has expanded the horizons of genealogy. After years of dusty libraries, discussions with relatives who have now passed away and even a visit to a church in Quebec, I was back only a few generations. But within hours of finding an e-mail on my wife's website, I had tracked back seven more generations, to France in the 1600s, and found relatives I hadn't known existed. We now have our own Buteau website and encourage one another coast to coast. EMILE JOHN BUTEAU Riverside...
...favorite of the Pontiff's and a cultlike figure to many other Catholics. Last year 7 million pilgrims--more than went to Lourdes--trekked to the remote hillside village of Italy's San Giovanni Rotondo, where he's buried; the village bustles with the construction of hotels and a church that will seat...