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Visiting Professor of German Gail Finney says her fond memories of Harvard aided her decision to spend a sabbatical term here...
...Finney, who taught in the German Department as an assistant and associate professor between 1980 and 1988, is visiting from the University of California-Davis, where she is a professor of German and comparative literature...
DIED. ROSS FINNEY, 90, composer fascinated by the interplay between music and memory; in Carmel, California. His pieces ranged from folk-influenced compositions to 12-tone works...
DIED. JACK FINNEY, 84, writer; in Greenbrae, California. Finney's visions ran from a chilling depiction of conformity-as-horror in The Body Snatchers (1955), which spawned three movies, to the nostalgic Time and Again (1970), whose adman/time traveler found love, purpose and a sequel in the gaslit streets of Gilded Age New York...
...then sleepy popular culture. Anger's curdling inflections and class animosities were echoed in the plays of Joe Orton and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a direct descendant), in Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from Albert Finney to the Beatles, whom Osborne's example encouraged to speak in their own rude voices. He was the first to cry fire in a crowded London theater. From Anger on, no sexual or social rancor was off limits. Nobody had to behave...