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...said she was inspired to write her memoir—which was published last month—after she came across her great-grandfather??s cane, which she had seen in family photographs her whole life...
...book unites three diverse stories all belonging to her Jewish ancestors: her roots in Lithuania, the immigration of her great-grandfather??s family to Baltimore, and the re-immigration of three of his sons back to London to make their fortunes as cigarette magnates...
...what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world. I mean, I thought when I was a kid that I could communicate with ghosts by using my grandfather??s old Underwood typewriter, and I thought that if I didn’t put paper in it I could somehow type letters to the dead. I guess what really excites me is the prospect of [cultivating] a sense of the strange and the wondrous. The second was something that [English...
...liberation of the human race to whatever extent so the Holocaust shall never happen again,” he said. Burian’s granddaughter Daina S. Anhalt ’11 said that it was important that the Harvard community hear his account. “My grandfather??s message is both urgent and universal,” said Anhalt, who organized the event—sponsored by the Freshman Dean’s Office, the Harvard Foundation, Harvard Hillel, and the Faith & Life Forum—after a few of her friends expressed an interest...
...wintryfields and lakes beneath the open skies ofrural America. The film’s visual appealis greatest during its most brutal scenes.Sequences of abuse contrast dramaticallywith interspersed shots of farmlandsunsets, which provide some of the film’sonly warm colors.The climax, in which James takesTara to her grandfather??s farm, marks theleast believable portion of the film. Tara’sgrandfather, played by Dennis Hopper(“Easy Rider”), is flat and underdevelopedas a character. Hopper succeeds inportraying the cruelty that caused hischildren to run away as adolescents, butthere is no explanation...