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The chronological span of Gorey's work runs from the hornbook-inspired Eclectic Abecedarium through the Jazz Age-naughtiness of The Curious Sofa but will budge no further. An enthusiasm for the obsolete furnishes his rooms with daguerreotypes, gramophones and bell-pulls, and his diction matches the furniture-- his characters...
The result is a colorful glimpse of rural Serbian culture, with its patrimonial society, strong family loyalties, female subservience, slow, leisurely discourse. Zackheim does manage to eliminate a number of women as possible Lieserls, including a melodramatic Berlin actress who claimed in the 1930s to be Einstein's daughter. Zackheim...
The heads of the LGC are Edward M. Tate '99, Laura B. Zukerman '99, and Stephanie C. Field '99. Their connections to old money could be strong: Tate is a past president of the Porcellian club, and Field is a descendant of retail giant and Harvard alumnus Marshall Field.
1 Bacon interviewed Lloyd Bentsen 2 Bentsen is a descendant of Henry Wilson 3 Wilson was Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant 4 Grant was head of the Union Army during the Civil War 1 Bacon hired Monica Lewinsky as an aide 2 Lewinsky grew up in Beverly Hills with...
No country embraced the IQ--and the application of IQ testing to restructure society--more thoroughly than the U.S. Every year millions of Americans have their IQ measured, many with a direct descendant of Binet's original test, the Stanford-Binet, although not necessarily for the purpose Binet intended. He...