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Smith also announced the newly elected members of the Faculty Council: Economics Professor Jerry R. Green, German Art and Culture Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Associate Professor of History Maya Jasanoff, Philosophy Professor Sean D. Kelly, Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy, and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Karen L. Thornber...
Schoenhof’s Foreign Books first opened in downtown Boston in 1856, when a market-savvy German immigrant recognized a demand for French and German books. The business transferred ownership internally several times within the next 80 years. Poor management and the 1930s financial crisis booted the store out of Boston and forced it to move to its current location on Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge...
Although the bookstore was founded by a German family, French books have since become Schoenhof’s predominant source of revenue. “The latest, hottest French novel” is always the most popular item in store, Eastman says, especially if it has recently been translated into English...
...don’t think you can be a serious artist and not be influenced by other arts,” Keenan says, adding that he has found several foreign filmmakers influential—particularly the German director Werner Herzog and Federico Fellini, an Italian filmmaker who directed the films “La Strada” and “Juliet of the Spirits,” both of which are about characters who progressively gain their independence from external oppression...
ANNE SEIDEL, a German architect working for the U.N., on the thriving nightlife in Kabul, where restaurants and bars are surrounded by security guards and 20-ft. (6 m) blast walls...