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...Adventures in Cambridge” at Harvard Book Store last night. The book was originally written in 1913 by R.C. Evarts, a Lampoon alumnus, as a parody of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” The Lampoon contributed the foreword to the new edition, which Lampoon President Matthew K. Grzecki ’10 read aloud to the nearly-filled room. “This is an unbelievably impressive showing,” said Grzecki before delving into selections from the book. This reissue is based on an original version owned...
...celebrity memoirist Roger Moore trips at the first hurdle. In the foreword to My Word Is My Bond, Moore promises to deliver "a fun book with no recycled scandal, tittle-tattle or dirtdishing." This seems to me to reflect a fundamental misunderstanding on Moore's part of the genre to which he is contributing. Fortunately for us Moore is not quite as good as his word...
...Lowdown: A work of obvious affection, even adoration, what might surprise readers most is how Scorsese By Ebert emerges as a work of profound identification. In his foreword, Scorsese acknowledges that Ebert closely shares his love of film, his religious roots, and his moralistic worldview. Ebert picks up on that theme in his introduction: "We were born five months apart in 1942 ... We were children of working-class parents ... We attended Roman Catholic schools ... We memorized the Latin of the Mass ... We went to the movies all the time...
...couple of entries flick at Bradman's famously prickly character, but overall the tome - published to coincide with his centenary - is respectful. Such is Bradman's posthumous clout, and as cricket writer Gideon Haigh says in the foreword: "We are content for the deeds to stand...
...several years, the NWF found that sustainability-related education offered on campuses stayed steady between 2001 and 2008 - and might even have declined. "As an educator, I found this a cause for concern," writes Kevin Coyle, the NWF's vice president for education and training, in the report's foreword...