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...can’t not identify with the character and write them well,” Scott says. Don Sakers, author of science-fiction novels such as “Dance for the Ivory Madonna,” writes in an e-mail that he is fond of the endless mornings sitting in Scott’s kitchen brainstorming ideas for science-fiction stories. “We would start with an outlandish idea—such as, what if there were an alien race whose life cycle literally followed Freudian psychology?—and beat it back...
Memorial Church resounded with the sound of hymns and fond tributes last Wednesday at a service in remembrance of longtime Harvard professor and influential economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 29 at the age of 97. Hundreds of well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church and listened to an array of speakers as well-known as Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author’s son James K. Galbraith...
Updike is fond of that second cover. "It made me look smooth and kind of enigmatic," he says with a wry, twinkly smile. "All the things I want to be." And if he were on the cover today, what would the headline be? "STILL ALIVE, AMAZINGLY!" he suggests, getting even wryer and twinklier. "STILL ALIVE...
...topic of discomfort, can you explain one of your early film roles, in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death? It's about radical feminists who are eating men in the jungle. I was the bumbling guide. I have fond memories of spending two months with my shirt off in the jungle. It was me and two babes. It was kind...
...about performing was the ability to connect with other people in a very unique, special way,” Kamihara wrote in an e-mail. “Music is a very powerful medium for encouraging people to become less withdrawn, to experience moments of joy and to recall fond memories from the past...