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...published under the title of Atomized in the U.K.), for example, Houellebecq portrays his mother as so self-centered and infatuated with her own rootless, irresponsible hippie credo that she abandoned him in order to be able to travel and explore new experiences at will. Similarly, in his 2005 essay To Die, Houellebecq blames his "fundamental psychological fissure" on having been left by Ceccaldi at the age of five on to be raised by his grandmother...
...Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, De Pere...
Farewell to a Hollywood Legend My thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, DE PERE...
...axes of inquiry—not all of which are always running in the same direction at the same time—but for me they intersect in different, illuminating ways,” Johnson said. Instead of a final research paper, the class will culminate with a historiographical essay in which students will “figure out a body of scholarship that they want to map out and analyze,” Johnson said. Johnson came to Harvard in the fall of 2006 from New York University, where his colleague and friend Harvey Molotch, a professor of sociology...
...thanks to Richard Corliss for his essay on Charlton Heston [April 21]. If anyone under 40 wants to know why their older friends and family have such low regard for current Hollywood actors, Heston is one reason. He was a symbol of how America thought of itself: energetic, courageous, practical, resilient. No one in Hollywood can take his place. R.W. Harrington, DE PERE...