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...Brien, who deferred his admission as a graduate student at Harvard in order to serve in Vietnam, the elemental theme is his experience there as a shy and questioning infantryman. O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) is perhaps the finest imaginative reconstruction of that war; and his story Speaking of Courage (from The Things They Carried, 1990), the most poignant evocation of a Vietnam veteran's displacement upon returning home. In his latest novel, In the Lake of the Woods (Houghton Mifflin; 306 pages; $21.95), O'Brien turns once again...
...paintings on view in a major exhibition next March. He gave out no list, but among them are thought to be works by Van Gogh, Monet and Renoir. The star of the show -- as far as anyone knows -- is to be one of Edgar Degas's finest paintings, listed as "presumed destroyed" in studies written since 1945 and known only through a black-and-white photograph: Place de la Concorde (1875), stolen from the Gerstenberg collection in Berlin...
...person he has become in the process. On the first count, Ned Rorem's Knowing When to Stop (Simon & Schuster; 607 pages; $30) is the scintillating chronicle of how a gifted, remarkable, good- looking young man from the Midwest grew into a leading American composer, one of our finest craftsmen of art songs. On the second count, the book is profoundly exasperating...
...There were a variety of perspectives," said Professor of Afro-American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham yesterday. "It was one of the finest conferences I have ever attended. It was a real tribute to a person...
...second match, it placed lost in overtime to Bucknell, 10-13. The game might have been the team's finest of the weekend. Bucknell got up, early, but the Crimson battled back to notch the score and put it into extra minutes. Alexander and Davis again led the charge, scoring three goals apiece, while senior Joss Busquets, chipped...