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...artificial intelligence in 1995’s “Galatea 2.2.” He succeeds again in “Generosity,” his tenth novel, this time in bringing contemporary science into the dramatic foreground by exploring the world of genetic enhancement. “Generosity?? follows the lives of an unusually jubilant Algerian refugee, Thassa Amzwar, and her creative nonfiction instructor, Russell Stone, as they and the rest of America respond to Kurton’s announcement. The scientist’s latest initiative has discovered a convincing correlation between a particular...
George L. Walsh, former captain of the Harvard University Police Department, possessed an alarming capacity for generosity??sometimes even at the expense of his children’s comfort. On his morning commutes to Harvard, Walsh would periodically embarrass his children by stopping his car to offer rides to strangers standing along Mt. Auburn St.—he knew bus stops were especially fertile places to find people. “Dad, what are you doing?” daughter Barbara J. Walsh remembers asking her father on those morning trips. The genial former police captain...
...sorrows.” It’s a tempered end to an album about the melding of beauty and pain, a conflict that ultimately comes down on the side of the pretty. But the opening song might provide the best summary of the album. “Generosity?? strikes closest to Mirah’s signature meld of melancholy and heightened sense of drama, but also teases us with what seems to be missing from the rest of the album. The song is about being drained and used up by love...
...right, the results are exhilarating.Barry A. Shafrin ’09 is a clear stand-out. As Paul, a shy, worried dancer with a troubled past, Shafrin gives the audience—and “giving” is exactly what it is, an act of deep artistic generosity??a stunning monologue.Where the show is elsewhere furiously paced, Shafrin’s emotional crescendo is understated and graceful. He lets his words circle back on themselves, he pauses to think about his phrasing, and he times a series of gently nervous twitches and stutters perfectly.Shrafin...
Although he doesn’t know the names of past recipients of his generosity??“I go by faces,” he says—Chen claims that he has a good instinct for picking those likely to succeed. According to Chen, one of his favorite seniors is now a mayor in Long Island, and another works in the White House...