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...epigraph of Forster’s “Howard’s End,” “Only connect…” perhaps best reflects my thoughts about the opportunity that a possible move to Allston holds for the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and for the University at large. With its breadth of disciplines and mission both to generate new knowledge and apply it to improve the health of populations here and around the world, the School has enormous potential to make significant contributions to public health and to this University...
...curious," writes Kazuo Ishiguro in The Remains of the Day, "how people can build such warmth among themselves so swiftly." It's a statement (by another London-based writer originally from someplace else) Afolabi has chosen as the epigraph for Goodbye Lucille - an epigraph that highlights the heartening capacity for connection in unexpected places. "I have Polish friends and Ghanaian friends and Indian friends," says Afolabi, "friends across the spectrum. I read the other day that the largest ethnic group in London was mixed-race children. I was pretty gobsmacked, and encouraged as well. I hope that's the future...
...kamikazes were only a sideshow in the Pacific Theater. Thomas’ overarching aim is to substantiate his opening epigraph, a quote from Churchill—“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.” Thomas paraphrases that adage again in the book’s final sentence, and the intervening 335 pages provide proof. The case is both riveting and persuasive; one only wishes it were confined to the realm of history...
...section of introductory poems refers to the death of Carson’s mother directly, and even those are mediated by literary allusion. As tender as it is to remember visiting her mother being “like starting in on a piece by Beckett,” the epigraph she leaves is bare and cold: “There is so much wind here stones go blank.” The book is penned in defiance of this natural erasure, with Carson’s remembrances acting as a moving apotheosis for their subjects...
...which he submitted as a creative thesis with the guidance of Jamaica Kincaid. Iweala, a Nigerian-American whose mother is the Nigerian finance minister, has worked with Nigerian child-soldiers in rehabilitation. He gives no illusory messages of hope. On the contrary, all hope is extirpated in the epigraph, in which Rimbaud’s forlorn words resound: “je parvins à faire s’évanouir dans mon esprit toute l’esperance humaine” (“I managed to make all human hope disappear from my mind?...