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...people in the Hollywood Hills, and Jane Wyatt, who died last week at 96, was among the guests. She was happy to speak about her career to two longtime fans (Mary C. and me) who had grown up watching her as the wise and indulgent matriarch of Father Knows Best. I didn?t want her to be my mother (I had, and have, a fabulous one, thank you), but I recognized in Jane an emissary from a vanished age of better manners, cleaner diction, gentleness and gentility. She was a lady, when that word could be the ultimate compliment...
...biological father of 13-month-old Malawian boy David says he did not know that American pop star Madonna would be taking his son "for good" when she came to adopt him earlier this month (a claim government officials dispute). But Yohane Banda tells TIME that his son is now better off and he would be "killing" David's future to insist his son returns...
...academy exemplifies what’s best in the leadership and scholarship of a modern university.”At Fletcher’s request, Harvard removed the suffix “Jr.” a few years ago in order to honor Fletcher’s father, who along with his mother, sent their three sons to the University.Gates serves as chairman of the selection committee of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship Program, which is administratively supported by the Du Bois Institute.Cornel R. West ’74, who left Harvard for Princeton University after a much publicized...
...ambiguity between childlike innocence and pathetic nagging.Michael B. Hoagland ’07 brings a wealth of experience to the role of Boo; the HRDC Mainstage veteran does an excellent job of portraying Boo as a handsome face and little else. Plagued by his alcoholism and a verbally abusive father (Karl, played Benjamin K. Kawaller ’07), Boo is emotionally unavailable to his wife and son for most of the play. Hoagland creates this blank image of a husband almost too well, to the point that Boo seems too flat to be human sometimes. He nonetheless plays...
...young man to improve his portrait-painting skills under the tutelage of masters. He returned to his native land in the 1790s and ultimately settled in Boston. He painted more than 1,000 portraits before his death in 1828—including illustrious Harvard alums such as founding father John Adams, Class of 1755, and Kirkland, Class of 1789, a clergyman who led Harvard from 1810 to 1828 and presided over the establishment of the University’s law school...