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Higginbotham's wife, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Professor of African American Religious History at the Divinity School
...DIED. EVELYN WOOD, 86, educator; in Tucson, Arizona. In a nation where faster is synonymous with better, the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute, with its promise to boost reading speed from a dilatory 250 words per minute to a galloping 1,500--or more--made its diminutive founder an unlikely star when the institute opened in Washington in 1959. Presidents sent their staffs to learn the technique, developed by Wood from her study of naturally up-tempo readers, who she noted read pages from top to bottom, taking in whole thoughts in a single eyeful. Stunts like a class...
...follows from the first. The travel industry cherishes Piety 1. The traveler drifts through the world trying to fend off the truth of Piety 2, which declares itself in spasms of denied disappointment. At worst, a nostalgic heartache goes to work, the travel snob's regret, grandchild of an Evelyn Waugh-Somerset Maugham steamship elitism. Lucretius wrote: "Whenever a thing changes and alters its nature, at that moment comes the death of what it was before." A new metaphysic of distances and destinations has taken over the world...
Perhaps the salient question is not whether Harvard can afford to hire more minority faculty members, but whether we can afford not to. Judge Higginbotham is not the only Black faculty member who offers such unique opportunities and insights to our diverse community; Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, his wife, is another example. A host of other extremely qualified individuals around the country in a variety of fields offer similar opportunities for Harvard students. It is in Harvard's best interest to recruit them...
...DIED. EVELYN NORTON LINCOLN, 85, personal secretary to John Kennedy; in Washington. Lincoln devoted herself to the future President from his early days in Congress to his last day in Dallas (where she rode in the fatal motorcade); she would continue to visit his grave on each anniversary of his death. Her memoirs, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy and Kennedy and Johnson, were best sellers...