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...Darnton will replace long-time library director Sidney Verba '53 on July 1 and assume Verba's post as the Pforzheimer University Professor. Verba announced his intention to retire in September after directing the University's 90 libraries for 23 years...
Robert C. Darnton '60, a historian of 18th-century France from Princeton, will serve as the director of the Harvard University Library, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced Tuesday afternoon...
Novelists, on the other hand, need have no such scruples, and here are two who certainly don't. John Darnton, chief London correspondent for the New York Times, has entered the arena with a book called Neanderthal (Random House; 368 pages; $24), centered on the large-brained human species that, as far as paleontologists are concerned, became extinct about 27,000 years ago. Simultaneously, screenwriter Petru Popescu has weighed in with Almost Adam (William Morrow; 544 pages; $24), about australopiths, a group of small-brained but upright-walking human precursors whose most recent fossils are more than a million years...
...weather reflects my mood of pre-last-week-of-school hell," said Catherine C. Darnton '95 of Adams House...
Interpreted historically, they record the harshness and cruelty of rural life. In the peasant version, Little Red Riding Hood does not escape the wolf. Darnton's portrait of France is impressionistic, a series of sketches, but it is striking, original and often very clever. Félicitations...