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...sort of cultural authority enjoyed by Dickens and Tolstoy. For one thing, leisure-time alternatives to reading books increased enormously: movies arrived, as did radio, recorded music, television and, of late, the Internet. These encroachments of mass entertainment--not to mention the march toward subjectivity prompted by Freud--drove writers inward toward personal visions. Literary influence in our century is thus not principally a matter of popular recognition. It refers instead to the authors who managed through their artistry to make themselves heard and remembered amid the surrounding...
...three decades squandering his creative energies in a legal battle with Alfred A. Knopf; the artist demanded more royalties, while Knopf contended that he was not Glimp's publisher. At 86, death came peacefully to this proud virtuoso as he slept at the wheel of his sports car and drove into a tree. But wherever there are tiny, neurotic cultists with fruit and incense, Cranford Glimp's art will live...
...heart of yet another losing season, the Harvard men's hockey team drove 15 minutes into Boston and escaped into the confines of the Fleet Center. The annual Beanpot Tournament takes place over the first two Mondays of the month, and it is the only time of the season when records, streaks, rankings and reputation are put aside and the four Boston hockey powers--Harvard, Northeastern, Boston University and Boston College--play for nothing save pride...
...spring of his junior year, Ron Avni '98 decided to take the semester off to see what Hollywood had in store for him. With no real connections or concrete plans, he hopped into a car with his best friend from Yale, and the two drove to Los Angeles together...
...before, in a shooting spree in the high school cafeteria, Kinkel, carrying a semiautomatic rifle and two pistols, had discharged 51 rounds of ammunition, fatally injuring two students and wounding 18 others. Afterward, when deputies drove to his family's gingerbread-trimmed A-frame in a wooded subdivision, they found his parents shot to death. After his arrest, a handcuffed Kinkel managed to get at a knife taped to his leg and lunge at an officer in a police interrogation room. He was subdued with pepper spray...