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...born in 1908; she died in 1989, he in 1998) and Two Lives is a pocket history of those tumultuous times - from the Indian freedom campaign through World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The book is also about Seth: he recounts his student days in England, his 10 years studying economics at Stanford University, his decision to switch careers and write The Golden Gate (after reading Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin). He is no passive narrator. He reacts with horror to the fate of Henny's family and friends in wartime Germany, as told - sometimes...
...letters to her sister." Thereafter, Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters and the snobbish Wilcox clan into a modern academic feud that sweeps up the families of Howard Belsey, a white, English, radically-minded art-history professor at a prestigious New England liberal-arts college, and guest lecturer Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist art historian who campaigns against affirmative action and other sacred cows of the liberal establishment. The story rambles on through renovations of several key Forster plot points: a broken engagement, a mix-up at a public concert, a Christmas...
...time to worry. He is busy with his current project, a three-panel portrayal of the Civil War at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., where since 1990 he has painted 17 historical murals. (Among his other subjects: the Shaker sect, Native Americans and a New England fair.) He is also writing a book on the history of drawing, teaching female inmates at a Vermont state prison how to make a landscape mural and starting sketches for a portrait commission. Oh, and this fall he's off on a Fulbright fellowship to Colombia for two months, where he will...
...intelligent person has that attitude. A President is just a man who is fallible. As we note the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, we recall that the same logic produced blind obedience to orders by the Nazis and the Japanese militarists. Keith Appleyard Brighton, England When my brother died in Iraq, we accepted his death with grace and reverence for his service. Sheehan's conduct is embarrassing and dishonorable. The media portray her as a hero, a David vs. a Goliath. I see a weak woman who has sacrificed her son's honor in favor...
...trials. But when her research uncovered disturbing goings-on throughout the realm of medicine, "I found," she says, "that all roads were leading to the drug companies." This wasn't the conclusion of an innocent who'd blundered into the field. A former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Angell understood better than most the methods of big pharma, but she still thought the industry was dedicated to finding new medicines. She's now sure she was wrong...