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...Glenn C. Loury, who sets out his philosophies on race in America in his new book The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, has established himself firmly in the gray areas of the discussion about race. An economist by training, he is currently a professor and the founding director of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University. Early in his career, his work in economics led him to the idea of “social capital”: that “family and community backgrounds can play an important role...in determining individual achievement...
...star of Back to the Future Part II (he played George McFly). Unfortunately, Glover had already committed to shooting the film Where the Heart Is and cancelled his appearance at Harvard only two days in advance. “Pudding members pleaded for help from the Lampoon, and staffer Glenn McDonald ’89 immediately went to work,” the Lampy editor writes in an e-mail. “Just 24 hours later, he lined up former Lampoon guest Robin Williams.” Since then, he explains, the Lampoon has done much of the significant...
...Concerto. This was 25-year-old Lifschitz’s overdue Boston debut but the result was somewhat disappointing, especially after such an explosive first half. When Lifschitz released his recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the age of 16, he drew comparisons with the great Glenn Gould. One could also make an association with Gould based on his Brahms performance: both pianists took the work at almost unbearably slow tempi. Unlike Leonard Bernstein, who performed the work with Gould in 1962, James Bolle did not preface the performance with a disclaimer on artistic differences. The first...
...timing just fell together," says co-creator Linda Wallem. "All the radio stations were doing '80s at Noon. MTV had just celebrated its big [20th] anniversary." She and her '70s colleagues Mark Brazill and Terry Turner decided to build '80s around struggling musician and record-store clerk Corey (Glenn Howerton), just out of college and out of place in the success-oriented America...
...rare to see comix used this way. Glenn Dakin's early Abe stories ingeniously fold conventional comicbook narrative, superheroes and sci-fi, into works of whimsy and reflection. His subversive use of a superman icon pre-dates Chris Ware's similar usage (though without the bitter irony) by more than a decade. Then by the early nineties he uses comix in wildly experimental ways, mixing poetry, philosophy, fiction and non-fiction into a totally idiosyncratic vision. "Abe: Wrong for All the Right Reasons," finally allows Americans to see what they've been missing...