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Nathaniel Lachenmeyer's childhood memories of his father Charles are bitterly divided. The earliest and fondest ones are of his dad's gentle counsel during nightly walks with the dog. But as Nathaniel grew older, Charles, a promising sociology professor, became ill with paranoid schizophrenia. The boy was terrified by his father's delusions that CIA agents and Nathaniel's mother had "enslaved" his mind. Charles left home in 1981 when...
...important that we do everything we can to recover this piece," said Sandra Grindlay, curator of the University portrait collection, in a letter to Macy. "This work is...noteworthy for the importance of the sitter, the few pieces which survive by the artist, its place among the earliest sculptures to come to Harvard and its place in the development of the University's collections...
...fairness, I should mention that the film did begin its story slightly earlier: the audience was favored with a view of the Canyon's earliest human settlers. That is to say, we were shown a host of naked actors trying desperately to look primitive while running around in caves and grunting. The film ended with the James Earl Jones-style narrator proclaiming sonorously that the Grand Canyon gives us a glimpse of the immortality within each...
Through his mother, Lucretia Perkins, Burns can claim one of the town's earliest settlers--a John Perkins who landed in Ipswich in 1628 and settled in Salem--as his direct antecedent...
According to Fagen, his proposal, which is only in its earliest stages, would ask students to submit a list of courses that they planned to take the following semester...