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--Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, as quoted in The New York Times, Feb. 7. Gates was describing an incident of the week before, in Paris, where he had participated in a conference entitled "A Visual Arts Encounter...
"I was a little nervous," charlie recalls of his fist encounter with his son, at danny's home down the street from Fernald. "I had given up on [meeting Danny]. But I had always thought of him, and I always told my daughters they had a brother."
This is not to say that there are no moral people at Harvard, or that groups of people within the University never think or act or argue on moral grounds. I have been fortunate to encounter a few such people in my time here; have my gratitude for making my...
Not, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C-. (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D...
Choir boys are singing. Grumpy old men in funny robes are singing. It's foggy outside and people are wearing too much tweed. This must be England-in fact, Oxford of 1951. We are visiting with the charming, boyish at heart, but painfully inhibited C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins), author of...