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The sculptor of Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum, on the other hand, posed for a Rapid City, S. Dak., bulb squeezer and got more, or less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand...
He wrote speeches for both Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign and served as ambassador to India under President Kennedy (a resident of Winthrop House in the 1930s, when Galbraith was a tutor there). Not surprisingly, a life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his...
Ultimately, the staging of the overture illustrates director David Carmen's fundamental assumption that continually bogs down an otherwise delightful production, that if the audience isn't kept constantly amused by broad gestures and incessant slapstick, it will become bored and confused. It's an unfortunate approach to take: surely...
Yet, as Hamlet's mother said, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." (That's III, ii, 242, sports fans.) None of the comparisons are too obvious, but, at least in composite, Cross seems to have several Cantabridgian faculty members in mind. In cowardly deference to my own academic (and...
This delightful yet damnable lack of substance is why these stories fail to make a lasting impression. One admires the disciplined craftsmanship of the prose, but the stories remain precious objects under glass domes, sealed in pretty things of not much consequence. Like eleven mirages, the collection has a shimmering...