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The University announced yesterday that Charles F. Adams '32, a descendant of former U.S., Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, has established a new chair at the Kennedy school of Government.
"That makes me a little bit more conservativein my approach to it than if a descendant ofLongfellow had come into my office with it," shesaid.
Babe Ruth was a champion at almost everything he did. The dominant player in baseball history, he transformed the way the game was played. Off the field, he could scarf down 18-egg omelets, chug-a-lug boilermakers (ice cubes and all) and, it has been claimed, make love seven...
One can assume that a CD from a vegetarian libertarian Christian techno-artist who claims to be a descendant of Herman Melville's would be unbearable, right? Well, no. Everything Is Wrong, the new album from MOBY (yes, like the whale), is quite all right. Moby, whose earlier releases include...
But if Arcadia provides a cautionary fable for the historian, it is also a sort of trans-century canticle whose themes resound through the decades in transmuted, enriched forms. Stoppard has devised the perfect setting for his verbal ambiguity and punning, as when he plays on the phrase "the action...